[computer-go] MoGo

[Nick Wedd]

In message <1175779024.7429.2150.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Don 
Dailey <drd at mit.edu> writes
>On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:49 +0100, Jacques Basaldúa wrote:
>> But when the
>> program counts, surprise!, it wins by 0.5 points Chinese.
>> The users were thinking Japanese even if they accepted
>> Chinese rules. In fact, they did not have the choice.
>> They get the impression the game was stolen by
>> "technicalities" after they saw the engine blunder many
>> times.
>
>How does Japanese make any difference?   I would think that
>a Japanese rule player would appreciate UCT style of play
>more than Chinese players?

People are aware that Japanese and Chinese scoring can sometimes differ 
by a point.  So when a player loses to a program by half a point,
he can try claiming that he would have won if the other scoring method 
had been used.

I like to think that MoGo deliberately beats such people by half a 
point, so as to annoy them more  :-)

Nick
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