RE: [computer-go] Modern brute force search in go

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:computer-go-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Arend Bayer
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> Subject: RE: [computer-go] Modern brute force search in go
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> It's not pure speculation. Youcan  try to determine god's rankd by looking
> at winning probabilities in even games between players of different
> strength -- at god's level, even a 0.1 rank difference amounts
> to a winning percentage of 100%. I think someone did this with the data
> in the EGF ranks, and concluded it would be about 2-3 stones above
> today's top pros.
>

To me this *is* speculation. You can *try*, as you say, but you don't know
for sure.

How about the possibility of a new 'insight', say triggered by unorthodox
play by a computer-program that can easily beat humans? What if given this
new insight in the game, all pro's can become a stone stronger than before?
Then your statistical analysis of winning probabilities goes out the window.

Maybe this is unlikely to happen. Go has been played at a high level for
centuries. The fact is we just don't know and probably won't know until we
get there.

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