I'd really like to see a way to work out the issue of handicap stones so that they can enter into computer go competitions. In the past, there's been strong complaints about stronger bots playing against weaker bots. Would giving handicap make such match ups at least seem more interesting?
I think that if we can find a way to make the winning probability for any given game close to 50%, all both authors will get more useful information. If 19x19 shows a clear leader like MogoBot on 9x9, I'd bet the authors would take pride saying they were 4 stones ahead of the competition. As a weak bot author, I'd take pride in being able to beat Gnu Go with 6 stones given to my bot. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
