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

[Magnus Persson]

Quoting Christoph Birk <birk at ociw.edu>:

> 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.

But here you are missing the point that close to 0% winning  
probability means that it cannot win against random play. The opponent  
  could lose only by killing his own groups.

-Magnus