Beijing News Sports | Reporter Li Li
html On July 2, the Beijing Evening News Cup Amateur Go Qualifying Tournament was successfully completed on the Jingzhi.com event online platform, which also officially brought the amateur Go tournament online. How can so many amateur chess players finish the game at the same time? How to ensure that the competition is fair and just? How to help young chess players adapt to the online competition environment? The answers to these questions are not simple. "We really put a lot of thought into making the competition platform more suitable for children, and we wanted to keep the operating system as simple as possible while ensuring fairness and justice," said Haiyang, the person in charge of Beijing Jingzhi Technology Beijing Co., Ltd.allows everyone to compete online
Affected by the new crown epidemic, amateur Go competitions have been greatly affected in recent years. Ranking matches and rank matches that were originally conducted normally were frequently suspended, which not only affected the players' learning rhythm and progress, but also caused them to miss the golden time of learning Go. Everyone has been working hard on how to give chess players more opportunities to compete and how to move offline competitions online. It is against this background that the Jingzhi.com online event platform jointly developed by the Beijing Chess Academy, Beijing Go Association and Jingzhi.com came into being, so that "the epidemic prevention and control will not be relaxed, and the Go competition will not stop" has finally become Reality.
"To achieve this goal, Jingzhi.com invested a lot of manpower and technical support. Engineers worked overtime on research and development, which lasted more than 70 days. Relying on cutting-edge technologies such as , artificial intelligence, , Internet of Things, and cloud computing, we finally launched the Jingzhi.com competition online platform. . After passing multiple rounds of internal testing, this platform was officially used in the Beijing Evening News Cup Amateur Go Qualification Tournament, and the results were very good," said Haiyang.
This is a platform for children
Moving the competition from offline to online is the demand of many parents. But at the same time, the complexity of online competitions also makes parents nervous. “When we created the competition platform for the Beijing Evening News Cup Amateur Go Qualifying Tournament, we knew one thing very clearly. Because this is a qualifying tournament, one level is determined from Level 1, so the participating players are basically children, and they are definitely young. It’s very small. Therefore, we must consider the children and not set up an operating system that is too difficult, so that young chess players can participate smoothly,” Haiyang said.
Haiyang (right), the person in charge of Jingzhi Technology Beijing Co., Ltd., and Sun Junbiao (left), the person in charge of the Wanbao Cup event
For this reason, in the program, the Jingzhi.com event online platform has been simplified as much as possible. For example, during chess playing, only 3 buttons are set. One is to call the referee, one is to stop a move, and the other is to end the game and exit. "After the young chess player logs in, in addition to playing chess, there are only three buttons, which minimizes the possibility of pressing the wrong keys. At the same time, we also have the staff stay in touch with the parents online at any time, and if any problems arise, the parents can temporarily Step in and make sure your kids have a smoother time competing,” Ocean said.
Three points to ensure fairness
In online competitions, what chess players and parents are most worried about is definitely the issue of fairness. The platform has also given full consideration to this.
First of all, there are two video cameras in the arena. One is in front of the chess players, monitoring the player's portrait, video, and background video; the other is behind the chess players, monitoring the player's desktop, hands, and head to ensure that the players do not view it. , does not operate or answer other devices. Secondly, use authorized referees to manually judge chess to avoid various unexpected situations that may occur during the game and affect the result of the game. Thirdly, invigilators are used to invigilate the exam site through Tencent conference to monitor and record every move of the chess players. At the same time, the surveillance video is saved for 3 months to facilitate verification by the chess players.
In addition, the event system also rationally deployed the server architecture, optimized the load capacity of the server and programs, and reached a maximum scale that can withstand a competition of 3,000 people, which can meet the operational requirements of most competitions in Beijing.
"Through this Beijing Evening News Cup Amateur Go Qualifying Tournament, the competition system has been tested, and we will continue to optimize it in the future to provide players with better online competitions." Haiyang said.
