In article , Neil Fernandez wrote:
In article , JVT
writes

The best available software do
not perform any better (and often worse) on 9x9 than on 19x19 boards.

So is it basically the case that the best available go program, given
the most processing power it has ever run on, would lose every single
game against a weak club-level human opponent on a 9x9 board?

followups set to rgg

I'd expect to win in excess of 80% on 9x9 against any of the top PC
programs on 9x9, assuming reasonable komi[1]. I might do better than
that.

For what it's worth, I'm a British 3 kyu, which isn't *weak* - in chess
terms, somewhere between 1500 and 1700 ELO, I'd speculate (judging by
how difficult it's felt to get to this strength in both games; I was a
little under 2000ELO at chess when I was playing regularly.)

I'm certainly not strong at Go, though. [2]

- Andrew

[1] compensatory points for going second
[2] Yet... (I hope! )

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