Re: [gnugo-devel] 3.4 vs 3.6 against MFG

[Douglas Ridgway]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, David G Doshay wrote:

> Our testing is showing us that 3.6 is much stronger than what I had 
> been led to believe was the relative strength between GNU Go and MFG.
> 
> I had thought that GG 3.4 was perhaps 2 stones weaker than MFG, 
> although we never have tested that. We just ran two sets of games 
> between 3.6 level 10 and MFG level 10 and found:
> 
> 28 games handicap 0 (MFG playing white)
> 1 W MFG
> 27 B GG
> 
> 52 games handicap 5 (GNU Go playing white)
> 23 W GG
> 29 B MFG
> 
> 
> Thoughts?

Very interesting! Do you have any data on H0 with GNU Go playing white? I 
seem to recall that it did worse with white than black.

And are you by any chance using the fuseki db patches I posted back in
November / December? It's not been added, I believe due to concerns about
how much disk space it will occupy, but the additional variability should
be particularly important for running lots of games for testing and
statistics. For me, this was in fact the main point of the new db.

doug.
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