For those of you who missed it, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, rated 2787, recently played a match against the world's top chess program Komodo, rated 3368. Each of the 4 games used a different kind of handicap:
Pawn and Move Odds Pawn Odds Exchange Odds 4-Move Odds As you can see, handicaps in chess are no easy matter:-( When AlphaGo surpasses the top human professionals we may see such handicap challenges in the future. One may wonder if we'll ever see a computer giving 4 handicap to a professional... So how did Nakamura fare? See for yourself at https://www.chess.com/news/komodo-beats-nakamura-in-final-battle-1331 regards, -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
