Life In 19x19

I am just curious. Do both players have to type 'asr league' at the beginning of the game?

One is enough. I usually omit it if my opponent was faster.

You should get a point for being the first person to type it.

Additionally: I guess the system fetch all games between class members in the game archive, and then grep to find this string in the sgf. Why not use the new KGS tagging system instead ?

the script only needs one person to say the tag, but saying it both out of courtesy is what we go for usually.

the kgs Tag system doesn't work the way this script works. kgs tags arent put into the kgs archives hence we cant retrace it.

Yes they are :
http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?u ... kor&tags=y

That would avoid parsing the sgf, you only need the information from one page per player, thus the process would be faster and lighter for the kgs web server.

Interesting. So, tagging could become an alternate way to report games? I am sure that would reduce the admin workload -- even if only a little.

How often does the script miss a game?

if players dont forget to tag, then never.

Actually, there's a major difference which might render this idea useless.

Currently, the comment is entered at the start of the game. The KGS tag can be entered (and removed) at anytime after the game. So a dishonest player could untag lost games...

doesnt have to be, because script checks all players archive, so it should come up 2 times, dropping it if its already in the database. doublechecking ftw:P