computer-go: How bad are the public domain go programs?

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How badly does  gnugo 2.6 and baduki-0.2.9  play?  Are they considered
terrible?

I have always assumed my  program would lose  badly to any go programs
out there, but using cgoban I decided it was time to test this.  I was
rather surprised to find that I won 2 games against gnugo 2.6 and then
2 games against baduki-0.2.9 (I really  like baduki's clean and simple
interface.)  In both games my program used a lot less time.

I realize 4 games is not signficant statistically and my program could
still be much worse than either or both of these programs, but this at
least gives me slight encouragement.  

So do I have any  reason to be happy  or are these program just really
lousy?


Don