[computer-go] 19x19 Go, scalability with time vs handicap

Christoph Birk birk at ociw.edu
Mon Apr 23 15:02:07 PDT 2007


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Sylvain Gelly wrote:
> For human players a difference of 2 kyu means that the winning ratio of the
>> stronger player is almost 100%.
>> 
> Is it? Do you have some statistics? If so, that is interesting, because that
> means that neither MoGo nor GnuGo exploit well (comparing to humans) the
> handicap stones (see results of handicaps with settings which make them even
> at H0).

I am sure that Daniel is wrong here ... 2 kyu difference is more like
80% likelyhood of win.

Christoph



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