I’m being intentionally vague; I don’t really care whether it’s rated or between especially strong players, but I think it would be most interesting if both players are at least, say, 10k. It’s hard for me to imagine games getting especially long for kyu players (who are at least strong SDK and are playing seriously!), though; speaking as one, I’d sooner take a bad exchange than enter into a double ko
Well, I found my longest OGS game, and it’s not that exciting - Gooplet vs. Edhellan, 323 moves long. I don’t know why, but I wasn’t expecting it to be a handicap game.
Interestingly, my second-longest game is also a handicap game against a stronger player. My third is large reverse-komi against a stronger player, and my fourth is thematically similar to the first two. In most of them, in fact, there seems to be a large rank discrepancy; sometimes I’m the stronger player, as well. There is a handful of games that seem pretty evenly-matched, too, though those games are fewer.
I wrote a python script that called each game I’ve played and saved the total number of moves alongside the game ID in a list, then sorted them.
(Of course, I don’t know for sure that the linked game is actually my longest one, since I couldn’t figure out how to give the script access to my Private games, but I’m pretty sure there are only a handful of those, and they’re likely not so long)
Is this sort of frivolous use of the API frowned upon? I saved all the data locally so I won’t have to do it again. Getting that data involved over 1800 API calls, though I was limiting it to 2 calls per second.
@Uberdude’s two longest games on OGS, coming in at 323 moves long, are from December 2011 and August 2012. Both really exciting, and definitely the most interesting “longest games” I’ve found so far!
i think longest reasonable game i’ve had was this 25x25 game which took 528 stones + 2 passes to finish, total of 530 moves for 8.5 point game xD
(tho i’ve had some even longer ones where opponent has been basically just stalling >___>)
I initially didn’t specifically exclude 25x25 games from my query, but after looking through all of these… I think I will do so in the future. No offense to all of y’all who enjoy that board size, it’s just my brain starts to glaze over replaying them
Maybe I’ll rewrite my script to only include non-bot 19x19 games, since after gandering through a bunch of these, I’m pretty sure that’s what interests me the most. The question remains, though, as to whether to include handicap games, and games by players with a large rank discrepancy
The one against nrx had a similar opening to a Gu Li game I studied, Gu Li did something amazing in the top right corner. I actually replayed that game when I played myself in a title match, but I can’t find it to link here as viewing my profile Uberdude hangs, I wonder is that related to the fact I’ve played myself so triggers some error on the server now (it used to be fine)?
First of all I was wondering why your profile hangs, thought it was a problem on my end. The api still works fine though
Second - you could play yourself?? That was a feature?? When was it removed? That would solve the problem of the impossibility of live reviews on demo boards D:
Third - why are all five of your self-play games “ranked”? Did that change your rating at all? Also why are all these games listed as “r1”? They can’t all be round 1, right?
I didn’t choose to play myself, but I was the current title holder for one of the OGS title tournaments, and then I played in and won the tournament to decide the challenger, so that’s what the tournament system did . It was a best of 5 title match, each game starting a week later or something, so I suppose that counts as one round but 5 games.
. It was a best of 5 title match, each game starting a week later or something, so I suppose that counts as one round but 5 games.