also, i'm not sure that a lot of most amateurs' moves are very good. the spectrum of bad moves is wide, it's just that it takes someone many stones stronger to severely punish small differences between good and nearly-good moves. among players of relatively similar strength, these differences will go unnoticed and unpunished.
s. 2009/4/28 Don Dailey <[email protected]>: > A simplistic model that helps explain this is golf. On a single hole, even > a casual golfer has a realistic chance of out-golfing Tiger Woods. Tiger > occasionally shoots a 1 over par on some hole and even weak amateurs > occasionally par or even birdie a hole. It's not going to happen a lot, > but it's not ridiculous either. Years ago I taught a player how to golf, > and on his third time out with me, he hit a hole in one on a short par > 3. If Tiger Woods had been playing with us, he would have lost that hole > to this beginner. > > But in a 9 hole match, the odds go down enormously - for all practical > purposes there is no chance. > > I kind of think of GO like that, even though it's a pretty simplistic > model. Each move is like a hole of golf, it can be a good "shot" or a bad > one. With GO, however, probably a LOT of your moves are just as good as > the moves of a good player. But it's the ones that fall short, that kill > you. > > Go on a big board is like 18 holes of golf compared to just 1 or 2 holes of > golf. The better player is far more likely to win the 18 hole match than > the 1 hole match. > > - Don > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Ivan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I noticed that, in general, changes in the playout policy have a much >>> bigger impact on larger boards than on smaller boards. >>> >>> Rémi >> >> I think rating differences are emplified on larger boards. This is easy to >> see if you think about it this way : >> >> Somehow a 19x19 board is like 4 9x9 boards. Let us define a new game that >> I would call 4-Go where instead of playing one game, you play simultenously >> 4 games and determine the winner by calculating the sum of the scores of the >> four games. Certainly rating differences would be bigger with 4-go than with >> go (given the same two players). This explains why rating differences are >> bigger on 19x19 than 9x9. >> >> Ivan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
