[computer-go] December KGS online computer Go Tournament

[Nick Wedd]

The December 2006 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, 
December 3rd, in the European morning and Asian evening,
starting at 09:00 UTC and ending at about 14:00 UTC.

Both divisions will be five-round Swiss, and use 19x19 boards with 28 
minutes sudden death, Chinese rules, and 7.5 points komi.  There are 
details at http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=246 and at
http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=247.

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