Life In 19x19

FWIW, lag has been an issue sometimes for first person shooter games, and different semantics are sometimes adopted. For example, you can give advantage to the shooter’s side so if that guy’s client says he got the opponent, it’s true. Or you can give advantage to the other guy so that if it doesn ...

Imagine a classic real tournament. The organizers chose a small playing area, and so there is not enough room for tables and alleys between them. Alleys are extremely narrow. in order to walk in alleys, people must touch tables.

At this point you talk to the TD, referee, or other official.

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@tneva82

Not in the whole world. When I am connected with a cable (and not with WiFi) I never encounter lag problems.

With real clocks : player A makes a move, presses clock A, proctor A clicks on KGS and pauses clock A. When proctor A sees the move of player B on his screen, he restarts the ...

One way to reduce the costs could be:


Play a few rounds online, but each side uses a real board and a real clock, the proctor relays moves on KGS.
For the final rounds, use an international event (e.g. IMSA) that most players attend to anyway, and stay 2-3 more days.

Kazan? Howabout finland ...

- Mateusz was aware of the technical issue for some time, but never reported the issue to the tournament organizers


Now the organizers are aware of a lag problem in Kazan. What will happen if another player (e.g. Ilya Shikshin) plays from there?

Kazan? Howabout finland on various sites ...

Presumably, when Mateusz was contesting the repeal, it became clear that the repeated lag on his end was something that he knew about before it was game deciding - and maybe if it had been brought up prior to game #4, they could have worked together to come to a way to mitigate the lag problem (or ...

PS for european side, I would demand that next year match is to be played at KGS (Kazan Go Server), so other team could experience same difficulties.

As someone on neither side, I would recommend having time kept locally, offline.


That would be either impractical or open even bigger can of ...