Ingo Althöfer: <[email protected]>: >Hello, >
>> Ranked games can have up to 6 stones on KGS. If you want more, >> try free games. > >we just started a discussion on this in forum of "Deutscher Go-Bund". >One participant pointed ou the following problem for people, who >are willing to play high (>6) handicap games against Zen19d: > >Koffein wrote: >> ich fürchte, das wird derzeit nicht möglich sein. zen ist einfach >> zu beliebt - er hat nach ca 2-3 sekunden immer einen neuen gegner. >> um ein gewertetes spieleangebot in ein freies zu ändern, muss man >> den bot 2x herausfordern (das erste mal kommt nur eine meldung, >> dass so eine hohe vorgabe nicht gewertet werden kann). > >My translation: >His fear is that such unrated games are at the moment almost impossible, >because Zen19d is too attractive. 2-3 seconds after the end of a game, >Zen19d already has a new opponent. >To change a "rated game" offer to an unrated one the user has to challenge >the bot twice: after the first challenge you only get the message that >a game with such a high handicap cannot be rated. Seeking the game records of Zen19D, I've found few free games with high handicap. Less busy period of bots is from 1 to 3 PM JST (+0900) (by my experiments and observations). >Would the Zen team perhaps be willing to set up a secret account >of Zen19d which would be meant for high handicap experiment? I guess that idea is impossible to do, or may violate the rules of KGS. >Or: Is it known from other experiments how well Zen19d does against >high handicap? I believe increasing handcap stones make MCTS bots perform worse because (basic) MCTS bots work best at even games (an experimentally well known fact) and used techniques such as dynamic komi cannot fully compensate the natural property (at least cannot outperform the best). # Just a fact, Black won all of the high handicap games I've found in the records, though the samples are few. Hideki -- Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
