On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:31 +0000, alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> Le jeudi 22 février 2007 17:00, Don Dailey a écrit :
> > It appears that at 9x9 Lazarus needs more play-outs to equalize with
> > gnugo.  However, it also appears that at higher levels the superiority
> > is even greater than in the 7x7 games.  This is non-intuitive and
> > probably not really the case - I assume this is due to sampling error
> > since fewer games have been played on this boardsize.  We also need to
> > see the highest level lose a few games as this surely distorts the
> > table significantly (you cannot get an accurate ELO rating if you don't
> > win AND lose some games.)
> > 
> > I may try 11x11 or 13x13 boards at a later time - focusing on lower
> > levels since the longer levels are very time consuming.  I will post
> > an update to this in a few days once I've gathered substantially more
> > data.
> > 
> Thanks for sharing your experiments.
> btw, GNU Go have databases for joseki and fuseki on 9X9 and 13x13.
> Maybe running with --nojosekidb --nofusekidb otpions would be better for
> scale comparison.

Oh now you tell me!!!

Will gnugo play deterministically without the joseki?   It's probably
ok in either case - since Lazarus is MC it provides plenty of variety
but I think I prefer seeing gnugo vary a little.  

By the way,  I'm running everything at the default with GNU Go for
this test.


> Alain

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