[computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:21:02PM +0000, Nick Wedd wrote:
> The December 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, December 
> 2nd, in the Asian evening, European morning and American night, starting at 
> 09:00 UTC (GMT) and ending about 13:00 UTC (GMT).
>
> Each division will be a 6-round Swiss with 19x19 boards and 18 minutes each 
> sudden death, and will use Chinese rules with 7.5 points komi. There are 
> details at
> http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=333 for the Formal division, and at 
> http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=334 for the Open.
>
> Registration is now open.  To enter, please read and follow, as usual, the 
> instructions at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/how/index.html.  The rules are 
> given at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/rules.html.
>
> Registration emails (with the words "KGS Tournament Registration" in the 
> title as usual) should be sent to me at maproom at gmail dot com (converted 
> to a valid address in the obvious way).

  are there any limits (set by either rules or ethiquette) on power of
the machines running the bots? Or noone cares? I wonder if it's ok to
use a 16-core opteron-packed machine to run the bot or something of the
scale of a reasonable modern desktop would be more appropriate.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure
that it wasn't a fish.		-- Marshall McLuhan