On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:43 +0200, Erik van der Werf wrote: > > The only reason I would favor one over the other > > is if it turned out that in "practical play" the games ended up > closer. > > For instance if black won a 53% at 6.5 komi and white wins 51% at > 7.5 > > komi, I would favor 7.5 because it kept the scores close. > > Last week I was told that, with 7.5 komi against itself, Mogo wins > over 60% as White. Also against my own program I have much better > chances when playing White.
I really don't trust this after doing the Leela experiments. Also, I studied this a while back with CGOS data and saw a very tiny advantage for white, not much. This was even when I filtered the weaker opponents out. I suppose I could do this again but it doesn't seem to prove anything. > As programs become stronger the advantage for one side with fractional > komi will inevitably become totally unbalanced. At some point we will > approach 100% and then I rather have that go to the first player. The > only fair alternative is to use integer komi. I think we have a long time for that to happen. When that day comes, 9x9 will be like checkers is now, you have to play 10 or 20 draws just to get 1 or 2 wins. - Don >
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