This is not an official KGS page.
In Spring 2005, a series of monthly Computer Go Tournaments started on KGS. The results of past ones and the schedule of future ones are given on this site.
This page gives some details of these tournaments.
KGS Computer Go Tournaments will be held about once a month. Those already scheduled are listed here.
We expect tournaments taking less than one day to be held on Sundays.
Tournament schedules will change from tournament to tournament, in an attempt to accommodate all timezones.
We will hold 19x19 and 9x9 tournaments. These may alternate.
For each board size we plan eventually to use not more than two, and maybe only one, time system. But while we are finding out what works best, we may try a variety of time systems.
As the person responsible for the schedule, I prefer Absolute time. With any other system, you can't predict when a round will end, so you can't know when to start the next one. This is not such a big deal with over- the-board tournaments, if one game uses lots of overtime you just keep everyone waiting until they have finished and then draw the next round. But KGS's automated tournament system requires to be told in advance when each round will begin.
For tournaments that take place in a single session, I shall stick with Absolute time. For tournaments played at one round a day, or "around the clock" with generous gaps between rounds, I shall try Canadian overtime. We may need more judges before we run around-the-clock tournaments on KGS.
Tournaments will be Round Robin (all-play-all) when numbers permit, otherwise Swiss.
The above paragraph sounds sensible, but isn't. The organiser has to establish the format of a tournament before adding the entrants to it.
are given on the KGS Computer Go Tournaments Rules page.
As these tournaments are new and experimental, the rules are liable to change, so I recommend checking the Rules page from time to time.
This site gives some guidance on how to enter a KGS Computer Go Tournament, including connecting a Go-playing program to KGS, kgsGtp and tournament play, and kgsGtp documentation.
Mainly for my own use: a list of programs which have already registered for at least one KGS Computer Go Tournament, and a site map.