Re: [computer-go] Win rate and handicap

["Jon Diamond" <list.diamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following link points to a page with a statistical analysis of European
tournament games.

http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~cieply/GO/statev.html

FWIW this indicates if these were human players then the weaker one would be
1 dan! But I don't think these results can be extrapolated to non-human
players.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christoph Birk" <birk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Win rate and handicap


> ddoshay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > http://dridgway.com/Go/sluggo_vs_MFG2.pdf
> > So, between these two programs, the 95% win rate is 4 or 5 stones.
>
> The graph shows a very high variation of the "score" between games.
> This indicates very weak playing level :-)
> I have talked to high level players (7d+ AGA): With 4 stones (between
> equal and moderately strong players) there should be virtually a 0% win
> probalility for white.
>
> Christoph
>
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