See below:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Lukas van de Wiel <
lukas.drinkt.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would reduce Alphago, because there is less training material in the
> form of high-dan-games, to train the policy network.
>


Maybe not a concern. There has been a suggestion that AlphaGo be allowed to
learn the 19x19 game with no human games input.
 - Also, there are larger game records (23x23, 25x25, and bigger) on KGS,
which is where the AlphaGo team got the SGF files from to train for Lee
Sedol.


>
> It would also reduce the skill of a human opponent, because (s)he would
> have less experience on a larger board, just as AlphaGo.
>

Agreed.... Joseki would be different, etc... but I agree with Ray Tayek
that humans can adopt quickly.


>
> It would be fun to see which can adapt better.
>

Agreed 100%!!!
Sighris



>
> Cheers
> Lukas
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Ray Tayek <rta...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/2016 11:25 AM, Tom M wrote:
>>
>>> I suspect that even with a similarly large training sample for
>>> initialization that AlphaGo would suffer a major reduction in apparent
>>> skill level.
>>>
>>

> i think a human would also.
>
>

>
>>    The CNN would require many more layers of convolution;
>>> the valuation of positions would be much more uncertain; play in the
>>> corner, edges, and center would all be more complicated patterns, and
>>> there would be far more good candidates to consider at each ply and
>>> rollouts would be much less stable and less accurate.
>>>
>>

> yes.
>>
>> the normal board size is 19x19 because the amount of territory in the
>> sides and corners is slightly larger than the amount of territory in the
>> middle.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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