1d (amateur) is a kind of holy grail for amateurs, because it separates fairly serious players from people just messing around, so seeing a program at that level on a 19x19 board at reasonable (non-blitz) time controls is quite impressive.
1p is generally stronger than all but a small handful of amateurs, so can be thought of as >=7d (amateur). beating a 1p in a zero-handicap game would be a really, really big deal for a computer player. $1M prize was well-considered, from that point of view. i think that the "insurance value" of such a proposition is still pretty low. s. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's difficult for me to understand this due to different ranking > systems and pro ratings vs amateur ratings. I see here listed as a 4 > dan player on this page: > > http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/htm/ki000343.htm > > > Is that 4 dan pro? My understanding is something like this: > > kyu player are casual players (or weak tournament players) > > low dan players are something like advanced amateurs or experts and weak > masters in chess. > > Pro's are like super high dan players and there is not very much > difference between ranks compared to regular dan players. I have heard > that a 1d professional will beat a 9d professional with 3 or 4 stones. > > So a 1d pro is something like a 7 or 8d+ amateur? > > Is this all "roughly" correct? > > So I assume that Aoba Kaori is a 4d professional? That would relate to > something in the ballpark of 9 or 10d amateur if there were such a > thing. And with 8 stones handicap, this implies that CrazyStone did > what a 2d+ would have done, or it is weaker than 2d but got lucky. So > it's "performance rating" for that one game is lower bounded at around 1 > or 2 dan. Since it won the game we could pick 2 dan as a better lower > bound guess although since it won we do not have a reasonable upper > bound guess on it's performance except our own credulity. > > Does what I said make any sense? I am not a go player and I'm not very > comfortable with this guesswork. In chess, if you beat a player I am > used to thinking in terms of setting a performance rating of around 400 > ELO higher for that one game. I know this is not precise, but I also > think of 400 ELO subtracted from the player you beat as a kind of > "estimated" lower bound on your strength. If you beat a 2500 ELO chess > player, it's a relatively safe bet that you are at least 2100 ELO in > strength although technically there is a chance you could lose to > anybody, even a random move generator. > > I know this isn't precise language, but how many ranks would give us > around 90 - 95% confidence of superiority? If I beat a 5 dan player, > could you say that it's "very likely" I am at least 3 dan in strength? > > I'm thinking that if we estimate Aoba at 10d amateur and CrazyStone wins > with 8 stone handicap, it is roughly equivalent to beating a 2d player > without handicap and that we can subtract 2 stones to say that with > pretty high confidence CrazyStone is playing at least 1 kyu (but that's > it's much more likely Crazy Stone is stronger than this - after all it > performed in this one game at least as well as 2d player.) > > > - Don > > > > > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 16:28 +0200, Rémi Coulom wrote: >> terry mcintyre wrote: >> > Congratulations! >> > >> >> Thanks. >> >> > I'm dying for details! What was the time limit? >> >> The organizers asked that the program should play at a constant time (30 >> second) per move. The sgf file contains time stamps (you can see the >> time with gogui, for instance). I don't know what was her time control, >> but she apparently played at the same pace as the program. >> >> > Did the game end on time or by resignation at move 179? >> > >> >> She resigned. >> >> > The pro was Aoba Kaori, yes? >> > >> >> Yes. >> >> The only other information I have about the match are these pages in >> Japanese: >> https://secure1.gakkai-web.net/gakkai/fit/program/html/event/event.html#6 >> http://www.ipsj.or.jp/10jigyo/fit/fit2008/events.html#1-4-1 >> >> I hope the organizers can send me some photos tomorrow. Then I will set >> up a web page and tell the list. >> >> Rémi >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
