Re: The progress of computer Go

[Tim Klinger <klinger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:15 PM 10/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I think it's possible to reach professional 1 dan level
>with this approach in not too distant future. At present time, I think it's a
>realistic goal is to reach higher than 5 kyu  levels on IGS. I think such a
>program will consists of about 40,000 lines of C program with about 300
>subroutines. Plus many MBs (100 MB or less?) of data files. Any program with
>content less than this is hopeless in reaching above playing levels. This
will
>give many Go program starters an idea where he or she is standing at. Then
>another question is how much has to be the increase in  Go program content to
>reach professional 1 dan level? I think the program content has to
increase at
>least 30% to 50% from above level to reach professional 1 dan level.
>
>
>Dan Liu

Dan,

Just out of sheer curiosity where do you get all these specific statistics
from? I myself can't even seem to work out a back-of-the-envelope
order-of-magnitude assessment of these things that I would be confident
asserting.  For instance, 300 subroutines?  Don't you think that depends
rather heavily on the design methodology and implementation language?  Then
30% to 50% more to reach professional 1 dan. Now, wouldn't that depend a
lot on the algorithms being used? etc.

There's nothing wrong with trying to guess these things.  It's a fun game.
It's just more fun if you have reasons for guessing as you do.

Tim