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

[terry mcintyre]

--- Mark Boon <tesujisoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 4-mrt-08, at 14:34, terry mcintyre wrote:
> 
> > Knowing that most current programs have a weakness
> > with regard to nakade, then any program which
> believes
> > it is behind ought to try and exploit such
> weaknesses,
> > no?
> 
> That assumes creating a situation where the nakade
> is misevaluated  
> once you're behind is easy. Writing code that
> exploits this weakness  
> may be harder than improving your program through
> other means. And  
> the 'gain' could be short-lived when MC programs fix
> the weakness.> 

That's the beauty of coevolution -- exploit a
weakness, and prompt the correction of that weakness.


Terry McIntyre &lt;terrymcintyre at yahoo.com&gt;

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874]


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