Life In 19x19

The exception would be the final byoyomi period, because there KGS will say your opponent has lost.
which is also the most important period
If Skype was open, it would allow player's to shout LAAAAAAAAAG and have that verified by the Observer.
this is a solution i certainly wouldn't like to see ...

Javaness: mostly as you say...

for a serious online tournament, you need a trusted observer on site to prevent cheating. then it is not difficult to use a software client keeping each player's time locally. this means lags handled automatically. and it is nice to the players to alleviate their ...

Apparently an upset.

It really should be a round robin for such an important tournament.
a round robin has its share of issues. namely frequent not easy to break ties and early losers performing weaker in later rounds (this is of lesser importance). but yes, the current double-single elimination ...

not much related to the ongoing discussion, do you know who are the proctors and how does their job look like? ie does an international EGF referee have to travel to Kazan for each game? do they sit behind the player and over his shoulder watch the computer screen? do they follow him if he goes to ...

I wonder if they will have a pro qualifier next year, and if they do, will it be reduced to just a straight knockout.
as Ali said near the end of the twitch stream, the next quali is scheduled at 2021. and it is the last one currently scheduled, before reevaluation when Europe is going to be ready ...

cool reactions from Lee Hajin and Ali Jabarin. more sensible than most.

by the way, yesterday i gave it some thought and with a trustworthy client (which we already have guaranteed by the proctors) it would be possible to build an authoritative local clock on top of the existing KGS infrastructure ...

by the way, Mateusz venting his frustration on Facebook before an official statement is not the best style. but issuing a ruling frustrating players without an official statement is also not the best style. and i am afraid neither player is as much at fault as the organizing team did a rather poor ...

Uberdude wrote:Women
Missingham (TWN) beat Chiaki (JPN)
Oh (KOR) beat Chenxing (CHN)

Uberdude: thanks for keeping us up to date. i'd only suggest using full names - i think it is nicer to read and in the first round you mixed some first and last names

But some for some people, the best solution is trying to find the most proper application of the tournament rules, and for other people, the best solution is to compromise. As I read these posts, people do seem dug in one way or the other.
i don't think the goal of this discussion is to find a ...

Another possible resolution that I don't think I've seen here is to declare the game a loss for both sides, and move on to the next player in line for both the AGA and EGF in the next match.

(I'm not saying that this is the resolution that I would advocate myself, but it should probably be in the ...

I think this comes down to whether we believe Mateusz’s statement. If he ran out of time, it should be his loss. If we believe that he played in time, but lag prevented the move, it seems appropriate to resume the game from that position.

I’m saying this, because when I asked about the rules for ...

For some time I've been wondering if I could devise an automated way of training joseki, with my eyes set on Anki (a pretty cool memorization program). Now I've finally reached presentable results.

Basically, there are many flash cards, each showing two full board positions. The question is where ...

Apart from being an iterative method (instead of closed form), the downside of my way is it gives +/- infinity if you have all wins/losses. You can anchor it with a fake loss/win to a super strong/weak player but that's a bodge (and the rating choice of the bodge affects the result). Then again ...

Is it workable with handicap having to be taken into account?
Or is there an alternative algorithm?
GoR description says:
The system also allows to include handicap games assuming that the rating difference D is reduced by 100(H-0.5), where H is the number of given handicaps.
you can adjust the ...

Let's put it this way: the genius that develops a new game that is a lock for AI will start a real movement. I wonder why there's virtually no try to develop a zero-sum game with perfect information not so easy to access for AI. IMO one could do a lot of things with the horizontal effect...making ...