In article , Andrew
Walkingshaw writes

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?

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

Any komi issue could be got rid of if you counted games in pairs, one
with each colour, and took mean difference in scores.

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

20% against an opponent suggests a rating 240 points lower, i.e. between
1260 and 1460 ELO. I wonder how you'd do if a program was given a lot
more processing power? :-)

Neil

(posted to all three groups, the comparison being the topic of the
thread :-) )

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Neil Fernandez