I should get a rating on KGS just to get a rough idea of how weak I am. I know that when I started I could not tell if a group was dead in even simple cases. I thought my own program was blundering many times when the moves were actually good.
Even though I haven't played a game (outside of my own program for testing) I know I've improved enormously just by watching my program play itself and other programs and from working out ways to improve it. I would expect that I might be around 20 kyu - much better than raw beginner but still not very good. Of course I'm not a top Go programmer either so I guess this is not very relevant ;-) - Don On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:32 -0400, Jason House wrote: > > On 9/11/07, Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don > Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >Who has the best Go programs at 19x19 level? I think David > Fotland is > >only 2 Dan and his is one of the best. I know the old > handtalk program > >was written by a very strong player. How strong is Michael > Reiss? > >And the other top guys? > > Ken Chen is 6-dan. Chen, Zhixing, the writer of > HandTalk/GoeMate is > about 5-dan by European standards. Martin Müller and Robert > Rehm are > 5-dan. Daniel Bump and Arnoud Rutgers van der Loeff are > 4-dan. David > Forland is 3-dan. Joachim Pimiskern is 2-dan. Michael Reiss > is 1-kyu. > Wang, Yizao is 2-kyu. Guillaume Chaslot and Ivo Tonkes are > 3-kyu. > > I have heard that Bruce Wilcox learned Go so as to be able to > write a > program to play it, and became 5-dan himself. > > > It may be important to distinguish the ratings that people are now > with their ratings when they started coding their program. I've > improved by 9 stones (by kgs ratings) since I started my bot. (I wish > I could say I'm a dan, but at 3k I think I'm still far from it). I > find that sitting down to work on my bot often encourages me to play > go instead... naturally leading to improved playing strength. > > I partly decided to write a bot so that I would be forced to solidify > my go knowledge (through the process of teaching the computer what I > know in a systematic way). Sadly, I don't think my coding of go has > taught me anything about go yet. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
