[computer-go] November KGS online computer Go Tournament

[Nick Wedd]

In message <8vyNwDaoLeRFFASA at maproom.demon.co.uk>, Nick Wedd 
<nick at maproom.co.uk> writes
>The November 2006 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, 
>November 5th, in the European evening and American midday,
>starting at 18:00 UTC and ending at about 22:00 UTC.

Reminder - it's tomorrow.

Nick

>The Formal division will use 13x13 boards with 18 minutes sudden death, 
>Chinese rules, and 7.5 points komi.  The Open division will use 9x9 
>boards with 13 minutes sudden death, Chinese rules, and 7.5 points 
>komi. There are details at
https://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=242 and at
https://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=245.

>Please note two important changes since the September event, brought 
>about by a major upgrade to the KGS server:
>1.
>The server is at a new address, goserver.gokgs.com (the old one was 
>goserver.igoweb.org).
>2.
>Clean-up at the end of the game is now supported. If your bot does not 
>support clean-up, it risks losing won games to a bot that does support 
>it.  To avoid this, you should either arrange for your bot to support 
>clean-up, or for it to capture all dead enemy stones before it passes.
>
>Registration is now open.  To enter, please read and follow the
>instructions at
>http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/how/index.html.  The rules are given at
>http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/rules.html.
>
>Nick

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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk