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Subject: Re: Go programming

Author: Janosch Zwerensky

Date: 07:02:34 02/13/04

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On February 12, 2004 at 15:23:03, William H Rogers wrote:

>There are some pretty strong GO programs already outthere.

GnuGo is said to be not much weaker than the top commercials (the strongest of
which is Go++), but a weakly 4-kyu amateur like myself can give it a seven-stone
handicap and be confident of victory. If I don't try to play the weaknesses of
the program at all but treat it just as I would treat a human, then the
difference might shrink to four or five stones, but at any rate, beating a
"master" is lightyears off given the current state of the art.


> (...) Somehow they rate players using a
>'stone' method which I really don't understand but the programs are more than
>half-way up the stone ladder.

They are weaker than the average club player, and by a mile so.

Regards,
Janosch



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