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Re: [gnugo-devel] Gifu results
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Heikki Levanto |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] Gifu results |
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Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:33:27 +0100 |
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
> I don't mean to be disrespectful, I just am wondering how the same
> program can beat one 1-kyu and lose a 9-stone game against another.
One of the reasons might be that humans tend to learn the strengths and
weaknesses of a program, while the program tends to stay exactly the
same from game to game. Thus the apparent strength of the program
decreses over the time a person plays against it. So, a 1-kyu who meets
the program for the first time can get a few nasty sruprises from good
tactical reading, but a 1-kyu who has played a number of games, probably
with increasing handicaps, can end up beating the same program with nine
stones.
Also, there can be a question of style, if the programs style wouldbe
biased (say) for overly aggressive attacks, it would be stronger against
some people, and weaker against others. Again, a human would learn to
recognize such, and play accordingly, and getting better and better
results against the program.
I make no claims that this is what has happened, since I haven't even
seen the games, nor ever played agains Many Faces. But it is a
possibility.
-H
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Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk