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Re:The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective by mquander on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @05:53PM (#3860425)
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.

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Re:The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective by Retric on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @10:56PM (#3861197)
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)

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Re:The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective by llimllib on Thursday April 19, 2012 @12:17AM (#3861375)
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

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).

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