The August 2008 KGS computer Go tournament will be on Sunday October
12th, in the Asian evening, European morning and American night,
starting at 08:00 UTC (GMT) and ending soon after 12:00 UTC (GMT).
The Formal division will be a 6-round Swiss with 13x13 boards and 28
minutes main time. The Open division will be a 9-round Swiss with 9x9
boards and 18 minutes each main time. Both will use Chinese rules with
7.5 points komi. There are details at
http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=307 for the Formal division, and
at http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=308 for the Open.
For the first time, this event will not use "sudden death". It will use
a very fast "Canadian Overtime", of 25 moves in 20 minutes, for each
division. It was my intention to use 20 moves in 20 seconds, but there
appears to be a bug in the KGS tournament configuration software, such
that when I specify 20 stones in 20 seconds, the server takes it to mean
25 stones in 20 seconds. So the settings for this event are:
Formal division 28 minutes + 25 stones/20 seconds
Open division 18 minutes + 25 stones/20 seconds
Registration is now open. To enter, please read and follow, as usual,
the instructions at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/how/index.html. The
rules are given at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/rules.html.
Please send your registration email (with the words "KGS Tournament
Registration" in the title) to me at maproom at gmail dot com (converted
to a valid address in the obvious way).
Nick
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Nick Wedd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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