Any tournament between closely matched programs is a lottery. If the top program can only beat the next two 60 to 70% of the time, the top program is far from guaranteed to win the tournament. On 9x9 certainly white is an advantage, but it's not a huge one. On 19x19, the color choice is pretty irrelevant.
David > > In message > <[email protected]>, Erik van > der Werf <[email protected]> writes > >On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Somehow I feel that these kgs tournaments are for an important part > >>> decided by the kgs paring algorithm. It's annoying; the olympiad has > >>> become a hardware contest and the kgs tournaments a lottery. Hardly > >>> any good tournaments left. (Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, it's > >>> still fun to watch :-)) > >> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
