sorry, i just realized how out of context that was. in response to "X is 50kyu, Y is 300kyu", etc.
30kyu is a good bottom end. the bottom has to be somewhere, and 30kyu humans are easily beaten by most anything stronger than random play. more than 39 levels is asking quite a bit of the ranking system, given that handicap stones are expected to act somewhat linearally for small differences between ranks. the reality is that 30kyu is often just a way to refer to someone who has only minutes before learned the rules. nobody is expected to stay at 30kyu for more than, say, 2 or 3 games. a random player that doesn't fill its own eyes is a great 30kyu player in my mind. if ELO suppression is needed, a fixed anchor near the high end could always be estimated from a public-domain program that plays at, say, KGS. s. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
