[Computer-go] February KGS bot tournament: 19x19

[Nick Wedd]

In message 
<AANLkTik6__MwTX9494N+4FMnyoBiAybgcWx05ZUMZEiX at mail.gmail.com>, Daniel 
Shawul <dshawul at gmail.com> writes

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>My other problem is with implementation of  'byo-yomi time' . I am not
>familiar with this time
>control before. From my understanding there is an initial main time set
>where an engine can
>make as many moves at it wants. So does that mean if I make moves
>faster at that stage I get
>extra time or not ?

I don't understand the question.  When you have used all the main time, 
the byo-yomi starts.

> What I implemented currently is just make
>(boardisze / 4) i.e half you your total
>moves in that time control and the remaining in byo-yomi mode. Doe that
>sound reasonable ? 

Whether that is reasonable depends on the amount of main time, and the 
number and length of the byo-yomi periods.  If you have an hour of main 
time and five 5-second byo-yomi periods, you will want to make almost 
all your moves in the main time.  If you have a minute of main time and 
thirty one-minute byo-yomi periods, you will want to make just a few 
moves in the main time.  In any case, you don't know how many moves 
there are going to be - I have seen a sensible game of 19x19 Go take 
less than 100 moves, and another take more than 400 moves.

Nick

>thanks in advance
>Daniel
>
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Nick Wedd <nick at maproom.co.uk> wrote:
>  The February 2011 KGS computer Go tournament will be on Sunday
>  February 6th, starting at 08:00 UTC and ending at 16:00 UTC.
>
>  I have tried to post more details, but my postings aren't appearing.
>
>  Nick
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