On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:48:03AM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:24 +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: > > Weaker players can not estimate the score until very late in the game. > > Not with enough precision, anyway. Thus, most of the time they have no > > idea if they are winning or loosing by 0.5 points. > > But the whole idea is to take you PAST this level of understanding.
I bet most of the go-playing population (humans and computer programs alike) are quite incapable of estimating the final score on a 19x19 board except in the yose. Perhaps dan-level amateurs can do it in the late middle game. But show me the player who can say at move 30 that playing here will lead to 0.5 point victory, and playing there will loose the game by a point and a half! Or show me any professional who claims to know the final score before the tenth move! Such people don't need to play go, they have already solved the game! - Heikki -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
