[computer-go] Yesterday's KGS Computer Go tournament

[Aloril]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 16:58 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote:
> Congratulations to GNU Go and StoneCrazy, undefeated winners in the two 
> divisions of yesterday's tournament.  There is a report at
> http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/18/index.html

> In round 4, Orego was still missing. It was drawn as black against GNU
> Go, and as it never appeared to make its first move, it eventually
> lost on time.  However, there is something that worries me about this
> game. GNU was present at the start of the game, and waited for its
> opponent to make a move. Eventually GNU was removed from the game by
> the server. If, after GNU had been removed, Orego had arrived and made
> a move, I fear that GNU might have lost on time, through no fault of
> its own. Or would the server have invited GNU to rejoin, if Orego had
> appeared?

GNU would have lost on time, server would not have invited GNU to
rejoin. However if GNU operator was present (s)he could have forced
disconnection and reconnection for GNU. Upon reconnecting it would have
joined game.

This actually happened in previous tournament.
MoGoBot joined game against IdiotBot late but KGS software did nothing
for IdiotBot and thus IdiotBot lost on time. However it would have lost
on play against that opponent 99.9%> sure anyway ;-)
So in this case ruling that IdiotBot won would have been disappointing. 
I think fix is that in tournament games bot waits against 'escaped'
opponents until time has run out and not only 5 minutes.

wms? (Cc:d to wms)

Log file:
FINEST: Queued command sent to engine: kgs-time_settings absolute 1680
Aug 6, 2006 4:10:00 PM org.igoweb.igoweb.client.gtp.GtpClient d
FINEST: Got successful response to command "kgs-time_settings absolute
1680": =
 absolute 1680 estimated max moves: 38
Aug 6, 2006 4:10:01 PM org.igoweb.igoweb.client.gtp.A i
WARNING: Opponent has left game. Will give them 5 minutes to return.
Aug 6, 2006 4:15:01 PM org.igoweb.igoweb.client.gtp.A g
WARNING: Opponent has not returned. Leaving game.
Aug 6, 2006 4:15:01 PM org.igoweb.igoweb.client.gtp.GtpClient c
FINE: Game ended. Starting another.
Aug 6, 2006 4:15:01 PM org.igoweb.igoweb.client.gtp.GtpClient d
FINER: No games to join. I'll just sit and wait.


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Aloril <aloril at iki.fi>