Re: [gnugo-devel] GnuGo strength - Clarifications

[Marco Scheurer]

> I have seen on the GoBan web page a graph of GnuGo ratings over time 
> in the NNGS server (rated about 10k since a few months).
>
> Using GoBan (MacOS free interface to GnuGO) I noticed that you can 
> vary the thinking time versus strength for GnuGo. Can you tell me what 
> is the setting used when GnuGo plays in NNGS: is it maximum strength, 
> or “recommended” strength (in GoBan that’s a setting about 2/3 up the 
> strength scale) ? If it’s not maximum strength, do you know the 
> approximate playing strength at maximum setting ?

On Sen:te Goban's scale, recommended is level 10, while maximum 
strength is 15, following some reports that GNU Go is stronger at level 
15 than 10 (but much slower, especially on 19x19 games).

I think that GNU Go on NNGS plays at level 10.

Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland    http://www.sente.ch