On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 02:46:17PM +0200, Jean-loup Gailly wrote:
> > If there would be interest, I can set up some full-blown Pachi
> > instance playing on 7x7 for a while.
> 
> I already left pachi2 running in 9x9 for a while.  With komi 7.5 pachi won
> 27 games and lost 2 but the losses were as black where the komi favors
> white.
> Unfortunately KGS doesn't allow forcing komi and strong players (>= 5d)
> don't like
> playing even games with a bot so they play white with 0.5 komi and always
> lose.

If you just turn off pachi2's rank, the default settings for all game
will be even and only rarely will anyone bother changing it.

> With 7x7, an opening book and correct komi, humans don't have a chance.

Yes, but who would bother with opening book for 7x7... ;-)

-- 
                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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