Hi Sylvain, Thank you for running that test! It verifies my earlier results and it shows that either 6.5 or 7.5 is as fair as you can get. Presumably, 6.5 is unfair for white and 7.5 is unfair for black.
If 7.0 is in fact the correct komi, I suppose this test also indicates that it's easier for black to win with 6.5 komi than it is for white to win with 7.5 komi. My test also showed that. So I suppose 7.5 is the least unfair komi. - Don On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 22:34 +0200, Sylvain Gelly wrote: > > However, it would be accurate to play a few thousand games at 7.5 komi, > > then a few thousand and 6.5 and compare the white/black win percentage. > > The > > one closest to 50% would be the one to use. > > If some are interested by the results, I just did a test. > 9x9 games, MoGo with 3k simulations per move against itself. Of course > this player is much weaker than the one playing on KGS, but at least > it enables me to make thousands games in some hours. > > Here are the results (wins for black): > komi 6.5: > 1943/3640 (53%) > komi 7.5 > 1754/3640 (48%) > > Sylvain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
