Re: Exhibition game

[cesczx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chen Zhixing)]

>
>Goemate/Handtalk played an exhibition game against a 10
>year old 3 Dan girl without handicap. 

>David
>

    The girl, named Saori Ishihara, is a 1-dan given by Nihon Kiin (Japan Go
Association).  Her 3-dan was given by a club.  More correctly, she is a 1-dan.
    My Goemate, a modified version of Handtalk, is now weaker than Handtalk.
It played against Handtalk with only 1/3 winning in over 50 recent games
before the FOST Cup.  The results show that the modification is incomplete
and has many shortcomings.
    The girl was 5 kyu in 1995-96 and 2 kyu in 1997. Although she is now 1
dan, I see that her level does not appreciately elevate as compared with
last year.  She lost to Handtalk last year by 6.5 points.  That game was
shown by Martin Mueller on our Mailing List as a puzzle in May this year and
opened on May 31.  We can see that the girl was bad in reading life&death.
In the game played in this year with Gomate, her weakness in life&death is
also shown. She lost the game by 8.5 points.
    Generally, a boy or a girl progresses in goe level faster than
goe-software does. Sauri Ishihara may be a girl with slow progression.  She
does not exceed the top level goe programs in these years. 

Chen Zhixing