I'm not being critical of anything that has already been presented, I just have not seen it myself and I've been pretty busy working on chess so my focus is not currently on this.
But I look forward to reading the paper if it's public. (I'm not going to buy the paper.) Don 2010/2/18 Petr Baudis <pa...@ucw.cz> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Don Dailey wrote: > > Does anyone have data based on several thousands games that attempts to > > measure the effect of dynamic komi? I would like to see results that > are > > statistically meaningful. We need to see a few thousand games played > > against a fixed opponent WITH dynamic komi, and then the same program > > without dyanmic komi playing against the same opponent with the same > number > > of games. The number of games must be decided before the test is run, > or > > As far as I can tell, nobody has yet to produce anything more than > anecdotal > > evidence that this works. > > In pretty much all of my original dynamic komi mails, I have pointed at > the presentation I've sent here earlier - if you have reservations > against that, I'll be happy to hear about them; the paper I'm preparing > should be ready in couple of weeks. > > For extra convenience, here is the graph from the presentation, > including 95% error bars; I'm sorry, I don't have data about exact > numbers of games anymore. The y-axis is winrate against GNUGo Level10. > > -- > Petr "Pasky" Baudis > A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely > rearranging their prejudices. -- William James > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >
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