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

[dave.devos at planet.nl]

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Van: Ray Tayek <rtayek at ca.rr.com>
Datum: zondag, januari 21, 2007 4:18 am
Onderwerp: Re: [computer-go] an idea for a new measure of a computer go
	program's rank.
> 
> also i suspect that at least 33% of the moves (at my 1-dan level) 
> are 
> wrong (what you might call in chess a "blunder"?).
> 
> what do other people of different strengths think about this 33%?
> 

I don't know the percentage of blunders. It also depends on what you 
call a blunder. Is a 1 point mistake a blunder?

But on average it would seem that a player loses about 13 points per 
game per grade separation from perfect play (11d?), implied by the 
definition of grade difference in relation to compensation by handicap 
stones. I don't know what the distribution of these mistakes related 
to their size would be (it would be interesting to find out), but I 
suspect the small mistakes would be more numerous. 

For a 1d this would imply a loss of about 130 points over the course 
of about 130 moves played by him in a game. So on average he loses 1 
point per move. I would guess that a handful of mistakes would be big, 
but most moves lose just a little bit or nothing at all.

Dave