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Re: [computer-go] Just for fun



I've written a small program to estimate the rank of players based on
their 9x9 game records in the kgs archive. Here's a few results based
on games with < 2 stones hcp against players without '?'.

Handle  	Games	Rank
-----------------------------
gnugo3pt6	108	9.35k
go81    	241	17.7k
viking4 	90	17.9k
viking5 	431	18.3k
botnoid 	115	19.3k
tlsbottest	38	19.9k
dumbbot		229	27.7k
nio		18	29.9k

Remember that these are only estimates. It does not account for undos
or incorrect scoring. I repeat once again that these are ESTIMATES. ;)

/Christian

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:40:30 -0500, Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I wanted to estimate the strength of my program as it plays on KGS,
> but KGS doesn't do rated games on 9x9 boards.  However I can get a
> rough estimate by processing the sgf files that KGS provides for my
> player.
> 
> So I threw out all the game results from unrated players and I get the
> following table:
> 
>   Rank   Win ratio      num games
> -------  ---------     ----------
>    3k      0.00000       1 games
>    4k      0.00000       1 games
>   10k      0.00000       1 games
>   11k      0.00000       2 games
>   12k      0.25000       4 games
>   13k      1.00000       2 games
>   14k      0.00000       1 games
>   15k      0.50000       2 games
>   17k      0.50000       2 games
>   18k      0.66667       3 games
>   19k      1.00000       1 games
>   21k      1.00000       1 games
>   22k      1.00000       1 games
>   24k      1.00000       1 games
>   25k      1.00000       2 games
>   26k      1.00000       3 games
>   28k      0.50000       2 games
> 
> Not much data, but the chart would indicate that my program is
> competing well with players over 16k, and not so well with players
> under 16k.  That would imply something near 16k.
> 
> The sgf files KGS produces have ratings even if the player just
> estimated the ratings themselves, so I take this with a grain of salt.
> Also, the games are not played seriously by players when they are
> unrated.  (I watched one player easily beat my program but lose on
> purpose, probably just to study my program and see what it would do.)
> 
> So all things considered, I am revising my estimate to be around 18k.
> I will know more when a lot more games have been played.
> 
> - Don
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