| format | 7-round Swiss |
|---|---|
| board size | 19×19 |
| rules | Chinese |
| komi | 7½ |
| time | 29 minutes plus 25/30s |
The first round started at 16:00 UTC.
|
In round 1, EricaBot got a lost position against hcBot. Its operator and
author, Shih-Chieh Huang, asked me if he was allowed to resign for it. I told him
he was. Normally, any kind of intervention with the program during the course of a
game is forbidden (though settings may be changed between rounds). But resignation
is always allowed, and I told him so. He resigned its game.
There are several ways you can in effect cause a bot to resign. One is to disconnect
it from the server, and leave it to lose on time – this will be shown in the
game record as a loss on time. Another is to disconnect it from the server, log in
to its account, and resign for it. But if you do this, the server will think you are
trying to cheat by logging in to a bot's account from a human client, and show if as
a loss by forfeit. The best way is to arrange to be able to tell your program that
it must resign.
|
|
|---|
| WeakBot50k vs Orego |
| Move 87. |
In round 2 Orego captured some of WeakBot50k's stones in a ladder SGF (WeakBot50k always pulls its stones out of atari if it can). It then allowed WeakBot50k (which is also keen on capturing stones) to recapture all the laddering stones, one by one, while it secured the rest of the board, as seen to the right.
In round 4, AyaMC beat Zen19, in what turned out to be the decisive game of the tournament SGF.
|
|---|
| Orego vs CzechBot |
|
Moves 225-229. 228 captures 225, 229 captures 226. |
Also in round 4, CzechBot had a won position against Orego SGF when the sequence shown to the left was played. Orego wanted to play 230 to capture 227, but this was disallowed by the superko rule. When it was unable to make the move that it wanted, Orego stopped playing, and eventually lost on time. The is the first triple-ko I have seen in any computer Go tournament.
At this point there were four players all on three wins from four games. AyaMC had lost only to pachi, pachi had lost only to Zen19, and CzechBot and Zen19 had lost only to AyaMC.
Orego was late for its round 5 game with SimpleBot – I assume it had needed
to be restarted by its operator.
Also in round 5, the game between Zen19 and CzechBot
SGF had a confusing ko fight from moves
192-207. I suspect that CzechBot could have played better here, and if it had, it might
have won the ko fight and the game.
Now AyaMC, pachi and Zen19 were still tied on four wins from five games.
After an unremarkable round 6, AyaMC, pachi and Zen19 were still tied, now on five wins from six games.
In the final round 7, AyaMC beat Orego, and Zen19 beat PNUGo. But pachi lost to CzechBot, leaving only AyaMC and Zen19 on six wins. AyaMC was ahead on the SOS (Sum of Opponents' Scores) tiebreak, winning the tournament. I was pleased to see that AyaMC no longer times out after the game is properly over, as it did several times last month.