For high handicap games taking black, giving white a big initial komi that decreases with time seems to help a lot. Otherwise at the first move, the program thinks it has over 80% win rate, and plays passively. This is not the way to win against a stronger player.
David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olivier Teytaud Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 9:13 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Exhibition match Magnus, Erica does not have dynamic komi. I didn't expect to win, so I never tested any handicaped game before. Also, I changed the komi 7.5 to 0.5 just before the game start. I believe Zen, Many Faces, even Mogo, must do much better in handicaped games. We have nothing special in mogo for handicaped games (to the best of my knowledge - I do not develop any more in mogo), and seemingly before winning any game mogo should check what happened in his time settings as most of the games lost by mogo were lost by time :-) Fotland teached me how to do dynamic komi (thanks a lot) but I was too tired to do it. So, Erica was not well-prepared for this match against this little and strong girl. But I think this game is just for fun, and I respect her grand father very much. So, I am happy to have such a chance to play a game face to face with her. I'm not aware of positive results with dynamic komi, but as I do not read the mailing list very often I might miss something... Best regards, Olivier
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