I watched all the games, and I must say, mogo performed really badly at the blitz games, and quite a bit better at the 1-hour game. I'd still take any claims of dan level play with lots of salt.
My take-away from watching the match is that blitz performance wasn't at all representative. A human playing blitz games might do 90% as well as at a full length game, whereas mogo's performance looked like it scaled more linearly. I also wonder how much playing with a 9 or more stone handicap affected it's apparent strength. It's an awful lot easier to appear competent when you start with 9 stones. It looked to me like mogo got totally demolished any place the pro concentrated his attack, except in the lower-right where the pro was caught being careless. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
