See attached a copy of the .sgf.  It was played private on KGS so you
can't get it there directly.  One of the admins cloned it and I saved
it off locally.

I changed the result to be B+4.5 instead of W+2.5.


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob Hearn <robert.a.he...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Many Faces won its match today against James Kerwin 1p, played at 7 stones,
> by 4.5 points. The program was running on a 32-core cluster supplied by
> Microsoft. The match was played live in front of a press briefing at the
> 2009 AAAS general meeting.
>
> The game record will be available on KGS shortly, if it is not already. Note
> that KGS scored the game incorrectly, so the result in the game record is
> wrong.
>
> As David says:
>
>> This version of Many Faces plays pure Chinese rules, so it will place
>> handicaps in nonstandard places.  It counts all stones on the board at the
>> end of the games as points, including the original handicap stones.
>>
>> KGS scores differently.  In a Chinese handicap game it gives one point
>> compensation to white for each handicap stone.
>>
>> We need to play with pure Chinese rules.  Keep this in mind when setting
>> the
>> handicap.  Each handicap stone is worth one point more than a Japanese
>> handicap stone.
>>
>> At the end of the game, the KGS score will be incorrect.  It will show
>> white
>> with one extra point for each handicap stone.
>
>
> Thanks to both David and Jim for participating. I got a lot of good
> questions at the AAAS press conference; hopefully this will add some popular
> interest.
>
> Bob Hearn
>
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