On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting John Tromp <[email protected]>: >> The fact that Zen won all its games, both with black and white, means >> that most, >> if not all competitors are far enough away from perfect play to to >> make komi adjustments >> unnecessary. > > I think your argument only holds when a superior program plays a much weaker > program. > > Programs of almost equal strength will play 1-1 almost every time. With > integral komi we would also get 1.5-0.5 results in addition which improves > discrimination.
Right; to get that level of discrimination with fractional komi requires a double-double round robin, playing at both komi 6.5 and komi 7.5 Such mixed-komi tournaments may be a good alternative to integer komi tournaments. regards, -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
