Protocol run: recorded

Recorded of the planned games completed. Incomplete and unplayed games remain separate from losses.

Full retained record and provenance

Interrupted JSON-input arena competition

Experiment: 981f6ecf-d016-4698-a14e-35bf1ed8876d

The user requested a complete restart with text inputs and an ASCII board while the first two games were running. Both game processes received SIGTERM, and the runner finalized their journals as incomplete. The remaining eight never started. No winner was recorded and no interrupted game is counted in the replacement. This was an intentional protocol change, not an outcome-based exclusion.

Round	Last recorded turn	Result
1	37	Interrupted, no winner
2	31	Interrupted, no winner

The series kimi-glm-deepseek-expert-2026-09-17 remains in arena/runs/ with its original frozen runtime and schedule. Thirty source and published files were copied or moved to archive/kimi-glm-deepseek-expert-2026-09-17/ and verified by SHA-256; its manifest records every path, digest and byte count. These include full journals and Parquet archives, compact viewer files, summaries and the original registration. The incomplete viewer files are no longer served publicly. The archive is local, not an off-machine backup.

A new protocol starts ten fresh games with the same lineup and budgets. Attribution: Codex implementation and audit.