| Formal division | Open division | |
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| format | 5-round Swiss | 5-round Swiss |
| board size | 19×19 | 19×19 |
| rules | Chinese | Chinese |
| komi | 7½ | 7½ |
| time | 43 minutes absolute | 43 minutes absolute |
The first round started at 16:00 UTC for the Formal and 16:05 for the Open division.
As usual, the tournament was held in two divisions, Formal and Open, with more restrictive entry conditions for the Formal division.
Formal Division 19×19
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Open Division 19×19
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We welcomed one new player, Basti Weidemyr's "Wei 2 Go". At present it uses a simple search algorithm – later versions are likely to incorporate MC techniques.
WeakBot50k was still shown on the server as having an undeserved rating of "2d?". However there was a genuinely strong set of entrants for this event – CrazyStone was 1k, and AyaMC and LeelaBot were 3k, all these ratings being earned by playing rated games against all comers on KGS.
The two versions of Many Faces of Go were different. ManyFaces1 was using MC/UCT methods, while ManyFaces2 was using alpha-beta search.
In round 2, AyaMC and GNU played an interesting game SGF. By the end of the game, GNU had territory in all four corners and owned 64 of the 1-line points, while AyaMC owned only eight of them. But AyaMC with its central territory was ahead, by 2½ points.
Also in round 2, the game between HouseBot and ManyFaces1 was even more
interesting SGF. HouseBot's
fuseki was eccentric, and by move 160, ManyFaces1 had killed several groups and
secured all four corners and most of the rest of the board, and was over 100
points ahead. But HouseBot slowly made gains, while ManyFaces1 did nothing to
stop it, in the manner of a UCT program that is confident it has won. After
move 276 ManyFaces1 was only half a point ahead; and then played two of its own
stones into atari, giving HouseBot the lead. When both players finally passed,
HouseBot was 2½ points ahead.
When the players were asked by the server to submit their lists of dead stones,
ManyFaces submitted a (correct) list, and HouseBot submitted no list (HouseBot
never submits a list). What ought to happen when one player submits a
list and the other does not, is that the server believes the list it does receive,
and scores the game accordingly; and at one time, this was what did happen. Thus
HouseBot's failure to submit a list is trusting (it leaves itself open to being
swindled by an unscrupulous opponent) but legal.
However, for some months now, the server has been behaving incorrectly. When only
one player has submitted a list of dead stones, it acts as if the other player has
claimed all its stones were alive (Jason House had reported this bug to me, but I
had failed to read his email properly, and did not act on it. I have now reported
it to wms, the programmer of KGS, and he has acknowledged that it should be fixed).
This causes play to resume, until the status of all the "disputed" stones has been
established. So in this game, play was resumed, but HouseBot, which had only 30
seconds left, timed out without moving, and thereby lost. David Fotland then
generously asked me to treat the game as a win for HouseBot, which I did. The game
is shown as "forfeited" by ManyFaces1, not the designation I would like, but I
have no power to change it.
In round 3, FirstGoBot took the lead against HouseBot SGF, and by move 164 it was over 100 points ahead. However for move 165 it passed, and continued to pass whenever it felt that its lead was still big enough. It overdid this, and continued passing or making meaningless moves, while HouseBot enlarged its territory and killed FirstGoBot's group in the lower right. Soon after this, FirstGoBot resigned.
In round 5, CrazyStone played another effective central territory game SGF, against GNU. Early in the game it scattered stones in the middle of the board; and then it let GNU take all four corners and most of the sides, while securing enough central territory for itself to win by 1½ points.
I removed IdiotBot from the draw before the draw for round 1, to make the numbers even and avoid byes.
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| AyaMC2 vs HBotSVN |
| The position after move 277, marked. |
Also in round 2, wei2go did not respond to move 28, and its opponent WeakBot50k won when wei2go timed out.
In round 3, wei2go did not respond to move 204, and its opponent SimpleBot won when wei2go timed out.
In round 4, wei2go did not respond to move 219, and its opponent HBotSVN won when wei2go timed out.
In round 5, wei2go did not respond to move 27, and its opponent StoneCrazy won when wei2go timed out.