Re: [gnugo-devel] Re: global lookahead, distributed go

[Arend Bayer]

David G Doshay wrote:

> Yes ... but ...
>
> I think that while we can gain a 3 to 4 stone advantage in "nearly self
> play"
> the true increase in strength against a human or another program will be
> less. Some of the advantage is that we can correctly predict exactly how
> our opponent would have played when we do lookahead. We would not
> be as accurate against other players or programs.

Do you have plans to run it on a server? (It is pretty trivial to connect to
NNGS/IGS/KGS assuming you are using GTP anyway.) It would be interesting
to see it's strength against humans. E.g. running it on KGS for half a
week should already get a moderately reliable rating.

Arend