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[IDEA] Go blitz tournament with cash prizes
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Author:  SoDesuNe [ Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:17 pm ]
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Hi there,

even before John Fairbairn's thread Chess vs go in lockdown, I was musing about organising a go blitz tournament by combining chess.com's Speed Chess Championship and Total Biscuit's SHOUTcraft Kings.

In Fairbairn's thread I wrote that all go players I know, play on the internet anyway. But online go as a spectator sport is still somewhat wanting (though there are quite a few more go streamers on Twitch now).

So I thought of ways to get something fun, engaging, thrilling and action packed while supporting players and streamers of go.

A go blitz tournament:

    Games are played on OGS and broadcasted by me on my Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/sdn_desu). Co-host possible. I'll probably use a Lizzie overlay for analysing and lazy estimating the win-percentages.

    Starting player will be made known beforehand.

    Pairings will not be known beforehand but are chosen by me on the fly. (I'll contact players beforehand and ask if they are willing to play in a specific time-frame. Communications will probably run through Skype.)

    We'll play best-of-three with decreasing time controls.
      First game: 5 minutes main time, 7 seconds Fischer - a win brings 1 point
      Second game: 3 minutes main time, 5 seconds Fischer - a win brings 0.75 points
      Third game: 1 minute main time, 5*10 byo-yomi - a win brings 0.5 points

    Each best of three has EUR 22,50 prize money and will be split among the players according to the points scored (PayPal). (So we will always play all three games but points will determine the winner.)

    Winner stays and plays the next best of three against an opponent chosen by me.

    Players will be (for now) 5d+ and either known to me, known to people I trust or publicly known (ie streamers).

    Depending on how long the games last, the tournament will end after around two hours or if I run out of opponents.

    There will be various forms of chat interactions like "re-buys" of players who lost a best-of-three through donations and polls before each best-of-three, who will win, with some prize to the user with the most correct guesses.

So far the raw idea... (I already made some more rules pertaining disconnects and cheating but let's keep in concise for now.)

Now a little poll for my target audience: Does such a tournament actually interest you?

Please also add a clarifying post to your vote : )
Author:  Shaddy [ Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:24 pm ]
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I’d be interested in playing, if you need players.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:22 am ]
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I will need players and will get back to you - thanks! : )
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:17 pm ]
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Blitz is fun but Fischer is not.

A tournament on OGS demands clarification of the scoring system and tournament rules for overriding wrong automatic OGS scoring by human referees.

Online, prizes and AI? Hm.
Author:  Harleqin [ Mon Jun 29, 2020 2:29 am ]
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Just as a counter point: Blitz is fun, but only with Fischer time.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:31 am ]
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A first draft of the rules is now available: https://senseis.xmp.net/?SoDesuNe%2FIKotH

Any suggestions or comments are welcome!

I'll start contacting players soon.
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:13 am ]
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"Rules: Japanese" is ambiguous. Which Japanese ruleset?

Since the organiser issues prizes and acts as a referee, his real name ought to be known.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:09 am ]
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RobertJasiek wrote:
"Rules: Japanese" is ambiguous. Which Japanese ruleset?


There is only one ruleset named "Japanese" on OGS and - in a very quick search - I couldn't find a detailed description of it. Needless to say those "Japanese" rules will be used in this tournament.
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sat Jul 04, 2020 11:49 am ]
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Since the server's declaration of rules as "Japanese" is ambiguous, it is the tournament organiser's duty to clarify by declaring a context ruleset (such as Verbal European-Japanese Rules) as interpretation.
Author:  Matti [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:24 am ]
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One may have a referee (and appeals commission) for the tournament. If a plaey or both think the server has got the wrong winner they may refer the case to the referee and the case will be decided with a predefined rule set.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:41 am ]
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These rules are in place and should cover the majority (likely all) of the practical cases, which can arise:

https://senseis.xmp.net/?SoDesuNe%2FIKotH wrote:
8) If OGS' automatic counting declares the wrong player as the winner, upon objection or in case of a miscount obvious to the organiser, the organiser will declare the correct winner based on the actual board position (and maybe with the help of the players and a bot).
    Objections to the automatic count have to be made during the match. If the next match started, there will be no changes to prior match results.

[...]

16) If any disputes arise that are not detailed in this rules, it is in the organiser's discretion to come up with a ruling.
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:08 am ]
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Since these rules still do not specify a Japanese context ruleset, they do not cover almost all, let alone all, practical cases. E.g., it is ambiguous whether sekis have territory, when and how stones from sekis can or must be removed, whether teire must be played or otherwise can have territory, what are statuses related to hidden kos (such as bent-4), complex kos (such as double ko death and another ko on the board) etc.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:16 am ]
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Since I'm not a developer of OGS and the documentation for the specifics of the used Japanese ruleset is... non-existent (as in, it links to SL), I can only say: The specifics are... https://senseis.xmp.net/?JapaneseRules.
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:46 am ]
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SoDesuNe wrote:
Since I'm not a developer of OGS and the documentation for the specifics of the used Japanese ruleset is... non-existent (as in, it links to SL), I can only say:


Tournament organisations, unless overridden by an association or federation, have the right to set tournament rules, such as declaring a particular ruleset of play. In particular, you as the tournament organiser have this right. That the tournament shall be held on OGS does not prevent you from exercising your right.

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The specifics are... https://senseis.xmp.net/?JapaneseRules.


In other words, you say that it is ambiguous whether a region has any territory at all if at least one surrounding string has at least one dame. (The Nihon Kiin 1989 Rules say: no territory. The Verbal-European Japanese Rules say: territory.) By leaving such an extreme ambiguity with extreme frequent relevance in practice, you do not fulfil your duty as a tournament organiser.

Do declare a specific context ruleset of rules of play!

For reference, a typical German tournament played on KGS clarifies a context ruleset because KGS-Japanese Rules are too ambiguous (although less so than on OGS).
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:06 am ]
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I really try to see your point. But then I read...

RobertJasiek wrote:
In other words, you say that it is ambiguous whether a region has any territory at all if at least one surrounding string has at least one dame. (The Nihon Kiin 1989 Rules say: no territory. The Verbal-European Japanese Rules say: territory.) By leaving such an extreme ambiguity with extreme frequent relevance in practice, you do not fulfil your duty as a tournament organiser.


...which poses a question miles away form any practical implications. But to nourish your curiosity: OGS automatic scoring handles this pretty fine in accordance to, I guess, "Verbal-European Japanese Rules".

Again, I can imagine where you're coming from (I guess) but - as far as I see - we're even (way) past the figuratively ivory tower here.

On a side note: I was in the organising committee of mulitple OTB tournaments over the last years and "Japanese Rules" was the only thing we announced. People were fine then, people will be fine now. Otherwise, rule #16 ; )
Author:  phillip1882 [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:14 am ]
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i'd like to play as well.
i have no idea how strong i am. i've beaten a 9 dan and lost to a 15 kyu.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:42 am ]
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I'm sorry, given the span this makes you - on average - weaker than 5d. If you tune in and post insightful analysis of the played positions in the chat I might reconsider ; )
Author:  RobertJasiek [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:17 am ]
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SoDesuNe wrote:
OGS automatic scoring handles this pretty fine in accordance to, I guess, "Verbal-European Japanese Rules".


No. OGS, as I understand it, uses AI. This means that any partial coincidence with a particular ruleset is accidental.

Quote:
I was in the organising committee of mulitple OTB tournaments over the last years and "Japanese Rules" was the only thing we announced.


Taking pride in your systematic mistake. Apart from that,...

such real world tournaments have an implicit context of some verbal Japanese ruleset (not necessarily European because not all tournaments are in Europe and some European countries had a slightly different verbal rules context before the European-Verbal Japanese Rules appeared). Such verbal Japanese rules are reasonable for practical application.

Refuting to declare them and instead insisting on a reference to all Japanese style rulesets is unreasonable, as is OGS by doing so.

Quote:
People were fine then, people will be fine now.


1) Many people do not know the details of Japanese rulesets. Instead, they make a subconscious, implicit assumption of some sort of verbal Japanese rules being used. This has the practical consequence of them being reasonable for practical application. So people are more reasonable WRT to rules than OGS and you.

2) In casual server games, it does not matter much if one loses once every few hundred games due to seki or ko ambiguity in the rules. (And more frequently by not noticing the consequences of forgotten teire mishandled by servers.) In tournaments, however, each game matters. Also the occasional game with seki or ko arcana matters. For this, it is insufficient to pretend people would be being fine. Serious players will notice such things when they occur and in tournaments will take action, i.e., they will then not conform to your lazy dream of "everything is just fine". For these cases, it is your responsibilty to decide the outcome of such games before the start of the tournament so that each player will get his fair result, instead of making an arbitrary decision after the incident occurs. The purpose of a tournament is a competition of skill of the players - not the tournament director replacing their skill by his arbitrary arbitration.

By declaring "verbal Japanese rules" before the tournament start, you meet practice, enable yourself to judge competently and (for Japanese style rules) minimise the frequency with which you have to judge at all.
Author:  SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:54 pm ]
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RobertJasiek wrote:
SoDesuNe wrote:
I was in the organising committee of mulitple OTB tournaments over the last years and "Japanese Rules" was the only thing we announced.


Taking pride in your systematic mistake.


Nope, just showing the world goes round without you needing to understand physics.

And I don't even need to pretend or "conform my lazy dream" (actually, why are we getting personal now?), I can base my assumptions on experience. Tournament games and casual games. Online and offline - on a side note: Does KGS declare which Japanese ruleset it uses?
Author:  Tryss [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:30 pm ]
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RobertJasiek wrote:
By declaring "verbal Japanese rules" before the tournament start, you meet practice, enable yourself to judge competently and (for Japanese style rules) minimise the frequency with which you have to judge at all.

Except that "Verbal Japanese rules" isn't much better defined than "japanese rules" :roll:
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