[computer-go] an idea for a new measure of a computer go program's rank.

[Don Dailey]

This is quite a bit less than I thought - only about 100 
ELO points.


- Don






On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 02:30 +0100, alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 01:23, Don Dailey a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:34 -0700, Arend Bayer wrote:
> > > Hi Don,
> > > To put another perspective on it: If I had an hour for every move in a
> > > tournament game, I might play good EGF 5d level instead of average EGF
> > > 4d. That's a big difference from my perspective, but a small one when
> > > you compare it with the strength difference between me and a Korean
> > > who just became pro. 
> > 
> > This is understood.  See what I said above.    I don't really know how
> > much
> > 1 extra dan represents at this level - I think it translates to 200 or
> > more
> > ELO points.   We can figure this out - what is the win expectancy of 5
> > dan
> > over 4 dan without handicap?   
> > 
> http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~cieply/GO/statev.html
>  4D   30.6% (out of 4000 games)
> 
> Alain