3 kyu at this level is a lot for a person. I've know club players who never got better than 9k, and people who study and play may still take a year or more to make this much improvement.
Many club players stall somewhere between 7k and 4k and never get any better. David > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Dailey > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:18 PM > To: computer-go > Subject: Re: [computer-go] 19x19 Study - prior in bayeselo, and KGS > study > > I wish I knew how that translates to win expectancy (ELO rating.) Is > 3 kyu at this level a pretty significant improvement? > > - Don > > > > Hiroshi Yamashita wrote: > >> Instead of playing UCT bot vs UCT bot, I am thinking about running a > >> scaling experiment against humans on KGS. I'll probably start with > >> 2k, 8k, 16k, and 32k playouts. > > > > I have a result on KGS. > > > > AyaMC 6k (5.9k) 160000po > http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=AyaMC > > AyaMC2 9k (8.4k) 10000po > http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=AyaMC2 > > > > 160000po ... 20000po x8 core (8sec/move on Xeon 2.66GHz) > > 10000po ... 5000po x2 core (2sec/move on Opteron 2.4GHz) > > > > (5.9k) and (8.4k) are from the graph. > > > > AyaMC2 has played 97 games in a day on average. (2sec/move) > > I changed program 01/19/2008, but it is not stable yet. > > On this condition, 7 days or more will be needed for stable rating. > > > > Hiroshi Yamashita > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
