On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 23:35 +0200, Erik van der Werf wrote: > Sylvain, could you run the same test on 7x7 to verify that there the > 'correct' komi would be 9 (try 8.5 vs 9.5)?
I can already tell you what will happen, I have done similar tests. At this point, the good UCT programs are so strong that if you use 8.5 black wins a pretty high percentage and if you use 9.5 white wins a fairly high percentage. I don't remember my exact results on this. I would still like to see Sylvain test this. On 5x5 it's just not testable, the UCT programs will win all games as black. I think Lazarus playing really fast only lost 1 game as black using 24.5 komi out of hundreds. One way we can watch the progress of computer GO at 9x9 is by observing over time the percentage of wins for white and black as program strength improves. It's interesting to think that at some point there may be no point in playing 9x9 computer go! Or it will become like checkers, where you have to play 50 games to get 48 draws and 2 wins and the better player is the one who can squeeze a couple of wins out of a 50 game match! - Don _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
