Hi, what makes you think the opening theory with reverse komi would be the same as with standard komi?
I would be afraid to invest an enormous amount of time just to learn, that you have to open differently in reverse komi games :) Detlef Am 05.01.2017 um 10:50 schrieb Paweł Morawiecki: > 2017-01-04 21:07 GMT+01:00 David Ongaro <david.ong...@hamburg.de>: > >> >> [...]So my question is: is it possible to have reverse Komi games >> by feeding the value network with reverse colors? >> > > In the paper from Nature (subsection "Features for policy/value > network"), authors state: > > *the stone colour at each intersection was represented as either > player or opponent rather than black or white. * > > Then, I think the AlphaGo algorithm would be fine with a reverse > komi. Namely, a human player takes black and has 7.5 komi. The next > step is that AlphaGo gives 2 stones of handicap but keeps 7.5 komi > (normally you have 0.5). > > Aja, can you confirm this? > > >> Also having 2 stone games is not so interesting since it would >> reveal less insights for even game opening Theory. >> > > I agree with David here, most insights we would get from even > games. But we can imagine the following show. Some games are played > with a reverse komi, some games would be played with 2 stones (yet, > white keeps 7.5 komi) and eventually the main event with normal > even games to debunk our myths on the game. Wouldn't be super > exciting!? > > Best regards, Paweł > > > > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing > list Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
