Jonathan,
Hideki,
what strength player are you?
I'm IGS 4D
Just make your arguments, and others will realize your strength naturally.
in my experience:
strong players play good moves,
they dont play better moves in handicap games.
weak players play bad moves,
they dont play worse moves in handicap games.
Strong players use whatever means are at their disposal.
The first emphasis is on speed, creating the cloudy elusiveness that
confounds weaker players.
But if at some point they need to win an "unwinnable" semeai, they will
go for it.
The euphemism for that is "preparing for resignation".
so... White effectively waits for Black to make two bad moves in a 2
stone game,
and then has an even game.
There are many ways to lose a handicap game. A single blunder can lose a
9 stone game.
Or 5 endgame inaccuracies can lose a 2 stone game.
what White cannot afford to do,
is assume Black will play a bad move.
regarding your comment "model of opponents",
it is a well said "play the board, not the opponent".
"Play the board, not the opponent" is something of a philosophical
statement.
Does it mean that white should minimize the loss given perfect black
answers?
Or that white should give himself the best chance of winning?
In a handicap game, white starts in a losing position, so complicating
the game is a reasonable end in itself.
Also, humans, that are successful at giving handicaps, have very precise
ideas what they can get away with at what level of black play.
As it is pretty unclear how a bot should "model" a weaker player, a
reasonable first attempt for a bot would be to simply invest less in the
move generator for black.
Stefan
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