I have some sense that it might be possible to slightly improve the
playing strength with some dynamic komi scheme. However, I have also
experimented quite a bit with various ways to do this and in each case I
have been able to detect at least a slight weakening of play.
That probably just means I have not stumbled on the right ideas or that
I was not able to properly tune it. I would be delighted if someone
was able to show us a workable scheme. I believe if something is found
it will result in a very minor improvement, but that it will be an
actual improvement.
When trying ideas like this I require statistically significant samples
which generally mean thousands of games if the improvement or weakening
is fairly small.
- Don
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:22 +0200, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
> > Especially I was able to "reproduce" the
> > following behaviour of MC in a very clear model:
> >
> > MC is playing most "goal-directed" ("zielgerichtet"
> > in German) when the position is balanced or when
> > the side of MC is slightly behind. However, when
> > MC is clearly ahead or clearly behind it is playing rather
> > lazy.
> >
> > Does someone here know, if there are or have been
> > investigations on this topic in existing papers or
> > projects (for instance in the context of computer go)?
>
> There has been discussion here about dynamic komi to keep the winning rate
> close to 50%. As far as I saw there was no clear conclusion about whether
> that works. Some people argued that it should not exist and measuring
> objective winning rates is always the right thing.
>
> However, there is less and less doubt in my mind about that the effect you
> describe exists and it hurts playing strength.
>
> What exactly did you do when you say "reproduce in a clear model"?
>
> We need a better understanding of what happens (which might point to a
> solution).
>
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