Re: [gnugo-devel] level 11/12? (was: Three stone games)

[Daniel Bump]

> I have run two 20 games matches with GNU Go plain vs GNU Go --owl-threats.
> The plain version won 25 out of 40. So this does not look very encouraging,
> although of course 40 games are not enough to decide for sure.
> 
> Also, --owl-threats might be more useful against humans or other programs;
> we have seen GNU Go loose or abandon a lot of groups lately, which is of
> course not so much a problem in games vs itself. So maybe the match was
> not so meaningful at all.
> 
> The time penalty for --owl-threats was around 40%.

I can do further testing of this. The time penalty seems huge.

Dan