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

[Don Dailey]

Christoph Birk wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Weston Markham wrote:
>> greater loss by the program.  (You also characterize the opponent's
>> blunder in (b) as "stupid", but I understand this to simply be a
>> subjective characterization based on the fact that it leads to a large
>> loss.)
>
> In my own experience it is much easier to make a 1pt mistake
> than a 10pt mistake. This may be 'subjective' but it's still true.
This may very well be true,  but I don't see why you are so sure MC
doesn't already make the compensation for that.     If it's because you
can't keep exact count of the score, I can understand, we probably don't
always consider the 1 point very important and overlook it.

MC won't overlook it.   It will probably go for the 10 point because
that is more likely to be important.   But if it goes for the 1 pt
instead, it's because it needs 1 pt to win, and the 10 points is harder
to deal with. 

- Don




>
>> (b), but it is sure to die as long as white responds at (a).  The rest
>> of the board is such that black will lose by 0.5 anyway if he plays
>> the "normal" move at a, and white responds with (b).  Do MC-based
>> programs really favor (b) over (a)?  (I am skeptical.)
>
> No, they don't.
>
>> Or is the
>> issue that Christoph and others believe that players should (for
>> whatever reason) favor (a)?
>
> Yes ... but not for 'whatever' reason :-)
>
> Christoph
>
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