2011/7/4 Erik van der Werf <[email protected]>: > > If the program can play 30k level moves against you and still win its > a strong indication that you were playing a hopeless position. Sure > it's annoying, but that's because you should have resigned.
I don't know if you are a Go player or not. If you are I suppose you never lose by points, always by resign. If you are losing by 6 points in the final stage of the small endgame you resing, isn't it? Some players (like me) like to do the counting stage of the game, _even_ if we are losing, and we don't want the other player to play stupid moves to win by 0.5 points. If you are this kind of player, there is a problem with the bot endgame. With you way of thinking the bot should never resing, because it reduce the probability of winning. Resign is only intended to finish a boring game (human politeness), not to play better, not about increasing the number of bot wins. Apart from that to humans is not the same lose by 6 points or by 100 points, like is not the same if a cyclist gets second in "le tour" by 3 minutes or by 2 hours. IMHO this thread is about a Go player who is annoyed with the bot endgame. If the author of the bot don't mind about human players, all is right, but Leon wants to collaborate to change the situation. Maybe can make two modes, "polite" when humans want to play or watch the game, "boring" when only matters wins. Andrés P.D: I'm not sure the losing points moves of bots really increase allways the real probability, maybe is an aliasing problem, a statistical significance problem. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
