On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Robert Cohen wrote:
> Bit of a nit picky question. > > Is Gnu Go really getting weaker and weaker. > Ive noticed that over time its rating according to the KGS rating graphs has > been going steadily down. The graph is here > http://kgs.kiseido.com/en_US/graphPage.jsp?user=TheGNUGo > > Since last Oct its rank has decreased from 9kyu to 12kyu. > > I like to think that with all the work people have been doing patching it, > it should be getting better. These are all fluctuations of the KGS rating system. There was a big change in the rating system that is responsible for the drop in Dec 2004. The drop in Aug 2005 happened in a period where TheGNUGo didn't even play a single game. As a comparison look at http://kgs.kiseido.com/en_US/graphPage.jsp?user=NGCBot which has been running 3.6 since it was released IIRC. > So is just coming up against better players. > Or was the rank inflated to start with and its just been getting more > accurate. KGS ranks will never be accurate I am afraid. Arend _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
