Mention the program so that the author can either refute your claim or fix the
bug.
terry mcintyre wrote:
Is it reasonable to expect pro players to use 6-dan programs as a tool
for analysis? The pro players are markedly better - at a rough guess, a
pro player could give a 6 dan amateur human or program a 3 stone handicap.
On the other end of the scale, beginning players and mid kyu players
could indeed make good use of an analysis mode by a program which is
better than themselves.
Lastly, an analysis mode would be helpful to developers, methinks. After
winning a game, I like to back up a few moves and find out when the
program realized that it was behind. This often happens several moves
after the fatal blow has already been struck. I know the feeling too
well, when stronger players deftly skewer my group and I only discover
the problem five moves later. What do they know that I don't? What do
they know that the program doesn't?
We have a saying, you learn the most from reviewing games which you have
lost. An analysis mode can help developers to discover when their pride
and joy first begins to miss the target.
Lately, I have been playing quite a bit with a commercially available
program. An almost-ladder which has an extra liberty will apparently be
evaluated the same as a true ladder, and the program can be tricked into
trying to capture my ladder-like position. This sort of predictable flaw
might provide a clue to improve the next version.
Terry McIntyre <[email protected]>
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
- Leo Tolstoy
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