[computer-go] Re: Should 9x9 komi be 8.0 ?]

[Christoph Birk]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Don Dailey wrote:
> I really believe the source of peoples confusion on this is believing
> that the program starts playing "ugly random" moves as soon as it is
> down a little.     But in fact, when it gets into "ugly" mode it is
> because the score is very close to 0.0  or in some programs like Lazarus
> -1.0

I thinks it's the source of your confusion. A MC program makes
"silly" moves when it thinks it will definitely lose; but it
does so even if the margin of loss is only 0.5 pts.

You are right, if the margin is 20 pts, the game is lost anyway
and one should better resign. We are talking about a small (by score!),
but sure (as estimated by the program) loss.

Christoph