Terry Mcintyre wrote: > Is it reasonable to expect pro players to use 6-dan > programs as a tool for analysis? The pro players are > markedly better - at a rough guess, a pro player > could give a 6 dan amateur human or program a 3 stone > handicap.
Yes, I believe so. Some tests indicate that 2-kyu programs (Leela or ManyFaces on moderte hardware) seem to be useful to detect "certain" blunders in the games of 2-dans. 2k and 2d are also three stones apart. The other "evidence" is that in chess a rating difference of 300 or 400 points was no problem for computers to be good helpers in analysis of grandmasters. Maybe, when Zen should become commercially available within a few months and with a strength of 1-dan (or even 2-dan), it might be tested to find blunders in games of 4-dan or 5-dan amateur players. Ingo. -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surfflat/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
