[computer-go] KGS Computer Go Tournament: results

[sylvain.gelly at m4x.org]

> The results are at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/21/index.html.
> Congratulations to AyaBot, and to SimpleBot!

Hello Nick, 

thank you for the tournaments and the report.

I can answer for the behavior of MoGoBot19 on the open tournament. Yes it is 
the same program as MoGoBot, running in a different machine. It turns out 
that someone else was using the machine were MoGoBot19 runned, and as we use 
the "CPU time" and not "real time", MoGo was taking a lot more real time for 
its moves than it should be. It is why it lost games on time, and some 
playing very badly at the end (when time is < 20 s, then MoGo plays randomly, 
it is a "security"). So for MC programs time is a "problem", but it is not 
the case here, the problem was "external" ;).
As I was in a plane I could not operate it (a friend was there if there was a 
crash, but he could not know about the machine).

I am very sorry for the observers about the bad games this problem gave.

Sylvain