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Zen beat Takemiya Masaki a few weeks ago in a non-blitz two-game match at five and four stones. It didn't even use an excessive amount of hardware, just a coup

• fuzzythinker 14y ago
  Actually, the author considers them to be a blitz game.. http://gogameguru.com/zen-computer-go-program-beats-takemiya-masaki-4-stones/#comment-3856 http://gogameguru.com/zen-computer-go-program-beats-takemiya...
  • mquander 14y ago
    Fair enough. I'd call it a "quick" game, analogous to quick games in chess. It was 25 minutes of main time and 5x30 sec byo-yomi periods, IIRC. Not the kind of blitz people play on KGS, at least.
    • Retric 14y ago
      Go often takes a lot more moves (~300+) to finish than chess. 25min per player / 150 moves = 10 seconds a move per player. Compared to ~40 in a chess game would be 2 min per side / 20 moves = 10 seconds a move. (http://www.chessgames.com/chessstats.html http://www.chessgames.com/chessstats.html)
      • llimllib 14y ago
        A game with 5x30 sec byo-yomi could take quite a bit longer than the 25 minutes free time, so that's not a good comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byoyomi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byoyomi After the 25 is up, each player can make as many moves in 30 seconds as they'd like, the 5 means that they can overstep that bound 5 times (by 30 second increments).