Rengo status

For live challenges, it’s up in the top left box, but not in the management pane.

This is because having it in two places was causing hassles.

It’s still there for correspondence challenges

Edit: Ah, I see, so you can’t see it if you haven’t joined :woman_facepalming:

Yeah, that’s a problem :slight_smile:

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Would auto-handicap be any easier to implement? If so that would already be great.

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Good thought: I’ll take a look. But what would the rules be?

I assume you could just set the handicap as if it was a regular two players game in which each player would have a glicko ranking equal to the team’s average.

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I’ve also seen some people point to a points system used for handicap too.

Some details
  1. Handicap setting

Players who have held amateur titles receive 9 handicap points. Players who have represented their prefectures in amateur title tournaments receive 8 handicap points. Other players receive handicap points as follows:

7D→7、 6D→6、 5D→5、 4D→4、 3D→3、 2D→2、 shodan→1、 1kyu→0、 2kyu→-1、 3kyu→-2、 4kyu→-3、 5kyu→-4、 6kyu→-5

the handicap points of a pair are the total of the two partners’ handicap points divided by two.

・Examples of handicap-point calculations for pairs
A’s points 6 4 5 2 -3
B’s points 2 1 -1 -4 -4
Pair’s points 4 2.5 2 -1 -3.5
※A and B are the partners in a pair.

  1. Handicaps

・The handicap in a game is determined by the difference in handicap points between the pairs as follows:

Point difference Handicap stones Komi
0.0 0 6
0.5 0 0
1.0 0 -6
1.5 2 0
2.0 2 -6
2.5 3 0
3.0 3 -6
3.5 4 0
4.0 4 -6
4.5 5 0
5.0 5 -6
5.5 6 0
6.0 6 -6
6.5 7 0
7.0 7 -6
7.5 8 0
8.0 8 -6
8.5 9 0
9.0 9 -6

・Jigo is won by White.

・Komi 6 : In games on even Black gives 6 points as komi.
Komi -6 : White gives 6 points as komi (reverse komi).

I imagine this would work reasonably well though.

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Rengo starting
Seems that it can happen too easely, as that’s not the first time

Maybe a confirm pop up won’t be a luxury?

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Yeah, it’s occurred to me to :slight_smile:

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Good to see not all the mods are weak kyus :wink: this system fella pulling his weight! :rofl:

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However the other possibility is that this game was a large strict mode challenge, in which case a moderator may have started it to get it moving and convert it to casual. Typically the moderators will check in the challenge chat before doing that…

It is a 3x3, casual or not i dunno. But that’s not the thing, the thing is the accidental resign.

There is a confirmation button, at least on the beta site.

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Yeah - it seems much more likely that Issa was wondering why it started.

They posted a surprised comment then left, it appears?

Anyhow, irrespective of that, I think the Start button does need a confirmation :smiley:

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O i see, the surprise is because of an early start.

Anyway, good news for the pop up.

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Me again, sorry!

What are these 3 dots? (No link to a profile)

Edit came back, they disappeared. Got a 3d player instead.

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Why do so many people resign before making a single move?

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Since the person is unranked it may be a new member who has no clue what he’s doing.

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This brings forth my somewhat unrelated rant about people who open challenges/ accept challenges just because it’s the longest / biggest game / tournament / rengo but have no actual wish to play.

If they join a large enough rengo match, they might not have to :joy:

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As creator what i can say is
I opened that casual rengo like yesterday
This player joined like 12hrs ago
The rengo was announced as 1move/2d for active players. It started a few mns later as soon as you joined as 4th player.
Last: my partner who has to play first move is not yet online (but he has 2 days to do it.)

The player who resigned is not a beginner snd played some games already.
The other similar case (issa) some hours ago was related to a contributor to the site with a ranking already (see a few post up on this)

Note: i opened one more casual 3d/move, and 2 classic absolute 4weeks and fischer semi quick
Everyone welcome!

Maybe it’s bugged

I checked the profile of the player who resigned (?)
The game is still in his active gsme list!

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