Re: [gnugo-devel] 100 game series

[Gunnar Farneback]

Dan wrote:
> I ran a 100 twogtp game series with GNU Go 3.3.13 (W) against
> GNU Go 3.2. W won 65 out of the 100 games, averaging about 9.8
> points to the better. Of course 5.5 points of this is komi. If
> these had been no-komi games, B would have won an extra 11
> games with 2 ties. This suggests that the difference in
> strength is about 1 stone.

I have a longer series of 1500 games, using approximately the version
in CVS on December 20. In this case too 3.2 was black and the result
was 922 white wins, giving a win rate of 61.5%.

/Gunnar