I assume in Go the difference is also a very large handicap.
in any case, i think that the difference is probably much larger than
just one or two stones. :)
It is said if has 4 stones handicap, every Pro will accept games play with
God even if bet his life.
When in limited local fighting like TumeGo, Pro plays just like God.
igo
One has to differentiate: In chess humans play very close to optimal in the
subset of chess which is played by humans. But this is only a very small
subset of what is really playable. E.g. There is currently a match between
Kramnik and Fritz. I showed the Kramnik team a game were Hydra crashes Fritz
in an important variation with a rook v. bishop sacrifice. But the team
said: Theoretcially convincing, but of no use for us. Kramnik can not play
this tactical massacre against a computer. Thats unhuman chess.
Humans are very far away from optimal play in unknown positions. E.g. they
are helpless against a perfect endgame database. Such a DB plays from the
human point of view completly crazy moves. A human opponent would never play
this. In human-machine matches it is very important for the machine team to
deviate from the human-patterns and to get a "chaotic" position. In the
preperation for the Adams-Hydra match we spent a lot of effort to deviate as
soon as possible from known opening theory and also that the programm plays
"strange" moves which are not necessarily optimal. The only requirement was,
that this "strange" moves are not really bad. This is completly sufficient
against a human. My personal criterion was: When the Hydra chess expert GM
Lutz said "Hmmm, whats this", I asked him if its bad. If he could not give a
convincing reason why its bad within 10 seconds, it was a very good move
against Adams (but not against God).
I think the same will happen also in Go. They have only a chance if God
plays human-Go. But against non-human moves they are certainly as helpless
as the chess-players. I assume its even worse, because Go is more pattern
related and more complex than chess.
Chrilly
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