Yesterday and today there have been three exhibiton games of Chun-Hsun Chou (9p), on 19x19 board against three different bots (Zen, Many Faces of Go, Mogo). In all these games the bots got 7 handicap stones.
Chou won all the games convincingly. Looking at Nick Wedd's table http://www.computer-go.info/h-c/index.html we see that so far there was only one bot win against a high-dan pro in handicap 7 games: it was in February 2009 against Jun-Xun Zhou 9p, in the first game of a series of 4 games. After that there were 8 games (against 4 different top pros; with three different bots) at handicap 7, and all were clear wins for the humans. So, handicap 7 seems to be not appropriate at the current state of affairs. I understand the problem of finding top pros to play at handicap 8 or 9 - so a moratorium for handicap 7 might be appropriate. Ingo. PS: COngratulations to Martin Mueller and the Fuego team for the 9x9-win (and 1:1 score) against Chun-Hsun Chou (9p), today ! -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
