http://www.online-go.com Online Go: Latest news 120 35 http://www.online-go.com http://www.online-go.com/images/misc/rss_icon.gif News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1717 http://www.online-go.com 2008-08-02 The three bots that play on OGS, AyaGo AyaGo6 and GnuGo, will be going on holiday tomorrow, Sunday August 3rd, for six days. This is because I will be away from home, and unable to tend them if anything goes wrong. I will leave them playing (but with their holiday flags set), and if all goes well, they will continue to move as normal. But if there is any kind of accident, they will all stop making moves, and won't start again until I can fix whatever has gone wrong, late on Friday 8th or early on Saturday 9th. News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1654 http://www.online-go.com 2008-05-29 Sorry, this is for people who have hard time logging in currently. Please clean your cookies if that's the case. In Firefox it's Tools -> Clear Private Data -> Cookies. If you don't succeed use http://online-go.nainwak.org instead. Regards, -- Damien News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1645 http://www.online-go.com 2008-05-23 Dear OGS players, I've been resumed here the different solutions that are available from the thread http://online-go.nainwak.org/forums/thread.php?threadID=1622 I've ignored rules that are impracticable like resetting the timeout rated when the user come backs and other stuff. Please revote! :) News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1622 http://www.online-go.com 2008-05-09 Dear OGS users, In another thread, the current rules of having games unrated after three consecutive loss by timeouts was widely criticized (http://online-go.nainwak.org/forums/thread.php?threadID=1620). rcc suggested that we should drop this limitation, what are you feeling about that? Best regards, -- Damien News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1606 http://www.online-go.com 2008-04-29 Dear OGS users, Since three months, we are preparing for a server switch. We are now in the final phase and I will initiate the server switch before next week if everything turns well. The current scheduled date is Friday, 2nd. This server switch will last around 10hours and you won't be able to access OGS during this period of time. I want to excuse myself for all the inconvenience. Of course, all deadlines will be extended by the duration of the switch. You should prepare yourself for several inconveniences: -- The server downtime. -- For several days, the url online-go.com and www.online-go.com might become inaccessible. The new URL will be posted during the switch. -- If you are using a notifier, please be sure to have an updated version of it that include php version (if you are a notifier developer, be sure to provide that version). -- If you have included HTML tags in your profile, you should be prepared to strip them as the new version will display your profile information as it's display thread entries. -- The Handicap and the Nines class of the Kuksu 2008 start will be delayed by some days (two days after the switch, that make it Sunday). -- Your profile picture can't be updated until the switch Best regards all, -- Damien (dmg) News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1575 http://www.online-go.com 2008-04-06 Hello all, I am posting that to put some precision on league tournaments promotion and relegation after some thought on it when coding the interface for draw helps. A challenger for the title won't be able to enter next round until the title match is finished (that's to avoid title holders to play in the league tournament). Exactly two players is relegated from each group except from the championship division where 4 players are relegated. One or two players from each group will go to the upper tier. Except for filling the championship division. The number of promotions will depends of the available spots due to people leaving the tournament. Every former title holders are eligibles to fill a spot in the championship division if available. An old title holder who just lost his title or a challenger who failed to win the title can rejoin the tournament as a member of the championship division. When the number of promotion does not match the number of group, the decision will be based on score then tiebreak to separated who are promoted from those who are none. Once all the available spots are filled using the promotion/relegation, new player are filled from the top to the bottom using their ranks. However, a newly entered player cannot enter a tier where the average rank is upper than his current rank. This is the only sensible points that might make more promotion than 2 in a group. About group size: Championship division will now always be between 6 and 8 players. Trying to get at 8 players all the time. Tier n will now always be of 2^(n-1) groups of max 8 players. These rules will apply on next Kuksu (Summer 2008). If you are to be promoted/relegated with the current standing, I'll try to keep your current promotion/demotion standard as much as possible. Sorry if that cause any inconveniences. Don't hesitate to do any remark if you feel it might be unfair. News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1569 http://www.online-go.com 2008-03-29 Hello everybody, Due to a lot of circumstance (complexity of the system, lack of interactions between players of a club, lack of interest, load for the club leaders, bugs in the system), I've decided to drop the club system in the next days. However, this do not drop the idea of having clubs so I'd like to open this discussion for new ideas on a club system. The first idea we had when discussing with illluck was to include the teaching system with those club like Go Schools. I don't have any idea on how to do this. So please enjoy proposing new ideas. Regards all, -- Damien News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1539 http://www.online-go.com 2008-03-03 Dear all, A FAQ rewriting process will be started. For that purpose, we are looking for missing subjects. Current missing FAQ sections: - Bot - Etiquette - User profile/feedback - When a game is rated. Don't hesitate to propose other subjects. We'll also appreciate help in writing those FAQ (just start a thread in the site improvement/suggestion for a FAQ section content if you feel like it). Regards all, -- OGS Team News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1537 http://www.online-go.com 2008-03-02 Hello all, Due to recent change of situation in the runners of OGS, we are now looking for help: * We are looking for a Bot Master that can run the bots (Well at, least AyaGo). Requirements are: - A windows computer that runs most the time (all the time is preferred). - A little time from the Bot Master to resolve conflicts (dead stones, happens rarely). I want to point out that OGS2GTP make it nearly all automatic for bot to run. So If you're a developer who is writing bot code, don't hesitate to ask me to create a bot account for it. * We are also looking for several people to help testing the future versions of the website. That basically means going regurlarly on a dev servers and doing random stuff on new features. * And, last but not least, we have appointed xela as a moderator. Welcome in the OGS Team xela :) If you are interested in joining for bot master or beta-tester, send me (dmg) a message. Another thing to notice. Next version of OGS will be under PHP. So, if you have good experience in PHP, HTML, SQL, JavaScript and you want to help don't hesitate to ask for beeing a site developer. Best regards, -- The OGS Team. News http://www.online-go.com/forums/thread.php?threadID=1516 http://www.online-go.com 2008-02-14 After a 3 to 2 win against Neandertaler, hotspur is the new title holder for Kuksu Nine Class. He has now 3 title on nines classes... I am also using this message to announce a code stall for new features for next month (I hope it won't last more than one month).