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

[Nick Wedd]

In message <20071127143430.GS14890 at machine.or.cz>, Petr Baudis 
<pasky at ucw.cz> writes
>  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.

The rules say, there are no limits.  Etiquette says that, if you do use 
a 16-core opteron-packed machine or whatever, you should tell me, so 
that I can mention it in my report on the event.

This used not to be a significant issue.  Before the advent of UCT, 
doubling or even 32-folding the processor power did not produce a big 
increase in playing strength.  Now it does, and so I should perhaps 
reconsider this.

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk