Yeah, exciting win for LeelaZero and very very sad time out for Katago in winning position. Never play last second on the internet even if you’re a bot. And they had 5 periods of byo-yomi too so probably a big mistake by the managing team here.
Also, the most annoying part of the tournament is AI byo-yomi use. They think for 60s every time so the game drags. I kinda liked how it was before when they used absolute time.
And they’re filling inside the territory after the game.
I heard that some servers were lagging more than 1 second per move. I don’t know how much that is within the control of the tournament organizers, and how much it was just the internet in general that they have no control over. If it’s just one or two teams timing out, then it’s much more likely the blame lies with the players, but when over half the games are TOs, then you can’t just chalk it up to individual programmers not knowing the rules.
I’m wondering how come there isn’t an anti-lagging system? A lot of online turn based servers have them, where they subtract the lag from your clock so that you’re not penalized for having a worse internet connection.
Yesterday I was determined to watch all the rounds but after intensive first round of the day I laid down and fell asleep. Let’s catch up on what happened.
In round 3 Leela won in crazy ko game, KataGo won easily against weaker engine after losing both games the day before.
The results of round 3 are:
LeelaZero 1-0 弈小天
手谈 0-1 逸乐围棋
星阵围棋 1-0 采薇围棋
威狐围棋 0-1 隐智围棋 (timeout)
天狗围棋 1-0 大胖围棋 (timeout)
爱奇围棋 1-0 小飞围棋 (timeout)
飞虎队 0-1 超然围棋 (timeout)
清石围棋 0-1 石子旋风
BSK 0-1 小爱围棋
棋之魂队 0-1 KataGo
And that put 逸乐围棋 and LeelaZero into the lead with all games won.
In the next round LeelaZero lost by time in what appeared to be winning 0.5 game with only dame left.
Frankly, ridiculous.
Katago won by 0.5 at least:
See, AI shows white winning by 0.5 but since black passed first it’s 6.5 komi and black wins.
The results:
逸乐围棋 1-0 LeelaZero (timeout)
采薇围棋 1-0 手谈
石子旋风 0-1 爱奇围棋 (timeout)
超然围棋 1-0 星阵围棋
弈小天 0-1 隐智围棋
天狗围棋 1-0 飞虎队 (timeout)
KataGo 1-0 小爱围棋
小飞围棋 0-1 威狐围棋 (timeout)
大胖围棋 1-0 棋之魂队
BSK 0-1 清石围棋 (invalid game)
Round 5:
天狗围棋 1-0 逸乐围棋
隐智围棋 0-1 LeelaZero
爱奇围棋 0-1 采薇围棋
威狐围棋 0-1 超然围棋
星阵围棋 1-0 弈小天 (timeout)
大胖围棋 0-1 KataGo (timeout)
手谈 0-1 石子旋风
清石围棋 1-0 小爱围棋
小飞围棋 0-1 飞虎队
棋之魂队 1-0 BSK
This puts 超然围棋, 采薇围棋, 天狗围棋, 逸乐围棋 and LeelaZero on top with 4 wins and 1 loss each. Totally 5 places. And the next group with 3 wins are 隐智围棋, 爱奇围棋, 星阵围棋, KataGo and 石子旋风. Top-8 qualify so it’s going to be a fierce battle in today’s 2 rounds.
No matter what the final results are from this tournament, I don’t think we can draw any meaninful conclusions from them with so many games ending by timeouts
I think strongest bots will still qualify for finals and then we’ll get some meaningful results. It’s offline and has 3 game quarterfinals, 5 game semis and 7 game final.
that is slightly better 