These results also appear on an official KGS page. (During the tournament, that page did not update and showed no results.)
| format | 12-round Swiss |
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| board size | 19×19 |
| rules | Chinese |
| komi | 7½ |
| time | 14 minutes plus 10/30s |
The first round started at 16:00 UTC.
| Place | Name | cross-table | Wins | SOS | SoDOS | Notes | |||||
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| AyaMC | Zen19 | Cyber | gnugo | Julie | EasyB | ||||||
| 1 | AyaMC | B14F W08R B011R | B1119½ W1620½ B112105½ | W13R B110R | W126½ B17T | B15197½ W19204½ | 10 | 67 | 51 | Winner | |
| 2 | Zen19X | W04F B18R W111R | W1514½ B1715½ | W02F B19R W112R | W01F B110F | W03F B16T | 8 | 70 | 49 | ||
| 3 | CyberGoBot | W0119½ B0620½ W012105½ | B0514½ W0715½ | W14R B18R | B138½ W19F B111F | B12321½ W110216½ | 7 | 72 | 26 | ||
| 4 | gnugo3pt8 | B03R W010R | B12F W09R B012R | B04R W08R | B05R W06R | B11261½ W17T B111353½ | 4 | 75 | 17 | ||
| 5 | JulieBot | B026½ W07T | B11F W010F | W038½ B09F W011F | W15R B16R | B14217½ W08F B012F | 4 | 74 | 19 | ||
| 6 | EasyBot | W05197½ B09204½ | B13F W06T | W02321½ B010216½ | W01261½ B07T W011353½ | W04217½ B18F W112F | 3 | 74 | 16 | ||
Excluding forfeited games, Black won 16 games and White won 11.
We welcomed a new player to these events: CyberGo, playing as CyberGoBot, is the work of Austrian programmer Paul Hepperger.
When I checked in the Computer Go room whether there were any last-minute entries, I was asked if EasyBot could enter. I asked how strong it is, and was immediately disconnected from KGS, so I did not see the response (I suffered several unexplained disconnections around that time). When I reconnected, time was short so I gave it the benefit of the doubt and registered it to play. I now regret this: it is very weak (maybe 27k), very reluctant to pass, never resigns, and cannot score correctly so all its games go into the clean-up phase.
In round 1, Zen19X was not connected to KGS. I learned later that its operator had forgotten to launch it before he went to sleep. It therefore lost its first four games on time. He woke up and launched it during round 5.
In round 2, EasyBot was late to join its game with CyberGoBot, because its operator had failed to put mode=tournament in its configuration file, and it was playing a human KGS user when the round started.
In round 5, Zen19X appeared, four minutes late, in its game with CyberGoBot, which it won.
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| JulieBot vs AyaMC |
| Moves 306,307. |
In its round 7 game with AyaMC, JulieBot played move 306 as shown to the right, putting its own two stones into atari. AyaBot captured with 307. JulieBot presumably tried to recapture at A18, which is illegal according to the positional superko rule as implemented on KGS for games using Chinese rules. Anyway, JulieBot disconnected from KGS, and did not reconnect, losing this and all its subsequent games on time.
Also in round 7, EasyBot was twelve minutes late joining its game with gnugu3pt8. It then passed repeatedly and rather slowly, until gnugo3pt8 had 44 stones on the board and it had none, when it lost on time. Its operator explained that this was the result of a bugfix intended to cause it to pass during the clean-up phase, which in fact caused it to pass in all circumstances. He then fixed this behaviour.
In round 8, and again in round 11, Zen19X played against AyaMC, and won. These two games were AyaMC's only losses, so it finished with ten wins. Zen19X had lost its first four games, including one against AyaMC, on time before it connected to the server; so it finished with eight wins.
Players receive points for the 2016 Annual KGS Bot Championship as follows:
| Aya | 8 |
| Zen | 5 |
| CyberGo | 3 |
| GNU Go | 2 |
| Julie | 1 |