The tournament actually began around 7:00 PM, due to setup time. Attending were students Andrew Southworth and Paul Mirati (authors of Luser) and Keith Miller (whose entry did not participate). Hosting were Bart Massey (myself) and Jamey Sharp, Intel Linux Laboratory Administrator. Jamey's assistance both with preparing and running the tournament and preparing this writeup was invaluable, and is gratefully acknowledged.
Listed are all entrants in the order in which they were seeded by the tournament director based on pre-tournament program evaluations.
Seed Authors Program 1 southworth-mirati Luser 2 burke Thunderhammer 3 long unshallow 4 supancich gothello 5 parker playgoth 6 zuttermeister gthDz 7 neiroukh Gigathello 8 tanaka junya 9 wang-li wang-li-Grossthello 10 lin Chen_Llo 11 tang tang-Grossthello 12 huang huang-Grossthello
The tournament consisted of 6 rounds, in an order and format chosen by the tournament director. Each program had an un-loaded Linux box to itself every round, so there was no opportunity for resource contention.
The first two rounds were played against Grossthello at depth 3, with a time limit of 2 minutes per side. All of the Grossthello instances ran on the same machine. Programs which won both games in the first round were given a bye in the second round. Programs which failed to win against Grossthello in any of the first four games were eliminated from the tournament. After both rounds the programs were ranked in the order of winning record, with ties broken by tournament seeding: this is the order shown in the table.
Round 1 Round 2 Authors Program b w b w burke Thunderhammer w w - - long unshallow w w - - parker playgoth w w - - tanaka junya w l w w huang huang-grossthello w l w w zuttermeister gthDz l(t) w t w supancich gothello l w l(i) l wang-li wang-li-grossthello w l w l neiroakh gigathello w l w l southworth-mirati Luser l l w l lin chen_Llo l l l l tang tang-grossthello l l l l
The game annotated (t) was lost on time. The game annotated (i) was lost on an illegal move in the won position.
The remaining 10 programs not eliminated in the first round were paired in power-protect fashion: the highest-ranked program against the lowest, and so forth. A round was played with a time limit of 4 minutes per side, and programs losing both games were eliminated. In the tables, a heading of b indicates that the first-listed program played black, w that the first-listed program played white.
Authors b w burke w w supancich l l
Authors b w long w w southworth-mirati l l
Authors b w parker l t wang-li w t
Authors b w tanaka l l neiroukh w w
Authors b w huang l w zuttermeister w l
Of the 7 programs remaining after round 3, Thunderhammer was given a bye. The remaining six teams were ordered roughly power-protect (but without duplicating previous matchups), and a round was played with a time limit of 4 minutes per side. Programs losing both games were eliminated.
Authors b w long w w parker l l
Authors b w neiroukh w w zuttermeister l(t) l
Authors b w huang w w wang-li l l
The gthDz loss on time this round was in a position where the program could have tied the game by filling an "extra" eye after an opponent pass. This program had a lot of trouble with opponent passes.
The win by the "protected" side in every case here suggests that the ranking converged correctly.
The semifinal was played with a time limit of 4 minutes per side. Programs losing twice were eliminated.
Authors b w burke w w huang l l
Authors b w long l l neiroukh w w
A minor upset here was Gigathello over Unshallow, a match that really showed the effectiveness of Gigathello.
The final was played at 8 minutes per side.
Authors b w burke w w neiroukh l l
Game records are available upon request. They are difficult to read due to a formatting botch by the tournament director.