On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Adrian Petrescu wrote: > I don't mean to be disrespectful, I just am wondering how the same > program can beat one 1-kyu and lose a 9-stone game against another.
One of the reasons might be that humans tend to learn the strengths and weaknesses of a program, while the program tends to stay exactly the same from game to game. Thus the apparent strength of the program decreses over the time a person plays against it. So, a 1-kyu who meets the program for the first time can get a few nasty sruprises from good tactical reading, but a 1-kyu who has played a number of games, probably with increasing handicaps, can end up beating the same program with nine stones. Also, there can be a question of style, if the programs style wouldbe biased (say) for overly aggressive attacks, it would be stronger against some people, and weaker against others. Again, a human would learn to recognize such, and play accordingly, and getting better and better results against the program. I make no claims that this is what has happened, since I haven't even seen the games, nor ever played agains Many Faces. But it is a possibility. -H -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
