[computer-go] Congratulations to the MoGoBots!

[Nick Wedd]

In message <1191860501.5493.10.camel at jhouse-laptop>, Jason House 
<jason.james.house at gmail.com> writes
>On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:04 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote:
>> Congratulations to MoGoBot1 and to MoGoBot2, the undefeated winners of
>> both divisions of yesterday's bot tournament on KGS!
>>
>> My report is at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/31/index.html.  It
>> doesn't say much about the play, more about the seven new competitors.
>>
>> Nick
>
>I'm disappointed that the round 1 loss of HBotSVN didn't make the
>highlights.  It had a won position (B+37.5) when the game was passed
>out.

I have added this to my report:

#  In its round 1 game with WeakBot50k, HBotSVN achieved a convincingly
#  won position with all the dame filled and 25 seconds left on its
#  clock. There was then some disagreement about status, and the game
#  was resumed. WeakBot50k made a pointless move, and HBotSVN did not
#  respond or pass but timed out.

I was not watching this game when it ended, the above is based on what I 
can deduce from the SGF record.  It seems to me that one of the players 
(I can't tell which, and I consider that it doesn't matter) made a 
totally unjustifiable claim about status, and that HBotSVN then failed 
to support the clean-up protocol, timing out when it could and should 
have passed, and lost as a consequence.

Nick
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