Sunjang Baduk Tournament

Introduction

Sunjang Baduk is the name given to the ancient Korean form of Go. It became vitually extinct as Korea entered the 1950s. KGS does not support the traditional form of scoring in this game (see Senseis Library and GoGod's article for more info), so we play using (KGS) Japanese scoring. White has a komi of 6 points in even games and 0 points in handicapped games. The maximum handicap is 8 stones, we don't know to set handicap beyond this.

The tournament is open to everyone, you do not have to be a BGA member to play in the tournament. If you wish to play in the tournament you should have a solid KGS grade. Playing with an inaccurate rank is unfair to others, playing on an unranked account is not permissible, except by special permission from the tournament director. The tournament runs from the 1st of July to the 15th of July and is self pairing. Full rules below.

	This is the starting position for Sunjang Baduk. The first move for Black is prescribed as tengen, not playing tengen on the first move will be interpreted as resignation. For a one stone handicap game Black gets to play the first and second moves of the game. The second move can be played wherever Black wishes, the first move must be tengen, as before. White receives 0 komi.
	For the handicaps 2 stones to 8 stones, the tengen stone becomes White. The Black handicap stones should be placed on the 7th line, as appropriate, on the positions marked A to H. White has the first move and 0 komi. For 2 stone handicap use G and C For 3 stone handicap use C, G and E For 4 stone handicap use A, C, G and E For 5 stone handicap use A, C, G, E and D For 6 stone handicap use A, H, G and C, D, E For 7 stone handicap use A, H, G and C, D, E, and B For 8 stone handicap use all letters
	As an example, this is the normal starting position for a 4 stone game. White has the first move here, with 0 komi as before.

Methodology for placing the initial stones.

Recommended method

The simplest approach to reaching your initial starting position involves using either a ranked or a free type game. Here judicious use of the Pass or Undo buttons will allow you to set the initial stones.

Expert method

One can also use the teaching game. For a teaching game some skill in using the CGoban3 client is required, and the mute option must be used in the game. If the mute option is not used Kibitzers comments will be viewable by you. Pressing ctrl-m means only the players can talk. Pressing ctrl-t and setting the stones in edit mode allows the initial position to be set up by the teacher (white). The teacher can then opt to resume the game. If you are not familiar with the teaching controls I don't recommend trying this.

Tournament Rules

The tournament will run for roughly a fortnight, from the 1st of July to the 15th of July. Registration will close on the 5th of July. Please Register on Edwin's website, which you must use to record your game results.

The tournament is self pairing. Meaning that you can arrange games with the list of registered participants, found on Edwin's website.

The following describe the conventions that will apply to your games.

• All games should be played in the British Room. Playing games elsewhere is antisocial. The British Room is found in the national Category in the Room List.
• Games conditions should be (KGS) Japanese Rules, with 20 minutes maintime, Canadian overtime 6 minutes for 25 stones.
• At the start of the game both players should type Sunjang Baduk Tournament to indicate that they are playing a tournament game. The referees will ignore all adjudication requests for games were the players have not typed this.
• Undo is at your own discretion.
• Handicap is calculated according to your current KGS rank. We are using Handicap-1, so you should take 1 stone off whatever handicap KGS suggests. For even games please Nigiri.
• As we don't know how to Handicap's beyond 8 stones, you can't have anything larger. So player's more than 9 stones apart still play on 8 stones.
• Competitors are allowed to play a maximum of 19 games.
• You can play the same opponent at most 3 times.
• As usual players will be ranked according to their Tournament Score. This is formulated by t = (w - sqrt(w)) / n where
  t is the tournament score
  n is the number of games
  w is the number of wins
  
• Cheating is not allowed.
• Players without pictures lose Jigo to Players with pictures by popular demand

Prizes will probably be lessons from Guo Juan's audiogolessons website , I invisage prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, and the best under 10kyu player

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