The only issue is that I don't know if GnuGo is representative of 19x19
to 9x9 go strength.   I am interested in knowing how a human 19x19
scales down to 9x9 play.      It's well known that programs scale up poorly.

However, this data should still be quite useful.

- Don


Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> Le mardi 4 décembre 2007, Don Dailey a écrit :
>
>   
>> For 9x9 ELO works better.     For 19x19 it's less clear cut.    The
>> handicap system appears to be a good system at 19x19 and has the very
>> nice merit of allowing grossly mismatched players to compete.       I
>> think the two systems can be married by adding a fixed offset per stone
>> handicap to your ELO.
>>
>>     
>
> Stats from official european go federation, on 150 000 games nearly solves
> the problem of doing ELO vs handicap matching.
> http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~cieply/GO/statev.html
>
> Just need to find one anchor, lets says gnugo , rated 6k on kgs in 2007-11...
>
> Alain
>
> PS i posted this link some times on the list, but nobody seems to 
> consider it is useful (except Sylvain Gelly ;-)
> I would be glad if someone could explain to me why this does not solve the
> problem.
>
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