Maybe they are long way from giving handicaps to you. But best of bots in KGS are around 2k and there are hundreds of 9k and weaker players present there at all times. So being able to play white is worthy thing at least for commercial bot.
Petri 2009/8/13 Christoph Birk <[email protected]>: > > On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Don Dailey wrote: >> >> I disagree. I think strong players have a sense of what kind of mistakes >> to expect, and try to provoke those mistakes. Dynamic komi does not model >> that. >> >> It also does the opposite of making the program play provocatively, which >> I believe is necessary to beat a weaker player with a large handicap against >> you. Instead of making it fight, it encourages the program to be content >> with less. How does this model strong handicap players? > > Maybe dynamic komi works better for BLACK? Computers are still > a looong way from actually _giving_ a handicap. > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > -- Petri Pitkänen e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
