[computer-go] Elo and handicap matching

[Alain Baeckeroot]

Le mardi 4 décembre 2007, Don Dailey a écrit :

> >
> For 9x9 ELO works better.     For 19x19 it's less clear cut.    The
> handicap system appears to be a good system at 19x19 and has the very
> nice merit of allowing grossly mismatched players to compete.       I
> think the two systems can be married by adding a fixed offset per stone
> handicap to your ELO.
> 

Stats from official european go federation, on 150 000 games nearly solves
the problem of doing ELO vs handicap matching.
http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~cieply/GO/statev.html

Just need to find one anchor, lets says gnugo , rated 6k on kgs in 2007-11...

Alain

PS i posted this link some times on the list, but nobody seems to 
consider it is useful (except Sylvain Gelly ;-)
I would be glad if someone could explain to me why this does not solve the
problem.