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The American Go Association adopted a uniform standard deviation of 104, [10] i.e. slightly more than one rank, while the European Go Federation ratings have a sliding standard of deviation from 200 for beginners down to 70 for top players. [6] The IGS has a fixed standard deviation for all levels of play, but a non-standard distribution. [11]
The per-rank handicap is therefore reduced, by a scaling factor. Various estimates have been given for the factor that applies to 13×13, in the range 2.5 up to 4; and on grounds both theoretical and experimental (small-board tournament play).
List of professional Go tournaments; References. This article includes a list of references, related reading, ...
The EGF also supports an "EGF Academy" that provides high-level training to the strongest young players in Europe. The Academy is a collaboration between the EGF, CEGO and the Ge Yuhong Go Academy in Beijing. Tuition is provided by both European and Asian professionals, and includes exchange programs allowing students to travel to China to ...
So, I think it will be even more difficult to program a computer to play a reasonable game of Go than of chess. Prior to 2015, [13] the best Go programs only managed to reach amateur dan level. [14] On the small 9×9 board, the computer fared better, and some programs managed to win a fraction of their 9×9 games against professional players.
Go long posed a daunting challenge to computer programmers, putting forward "difficult decision-making tasks, an intractable search space, and an optimal solution so complex it appears infeasible to directly approximate using a policy or value function". [137] Prior to 2015, [137] the best Go programs only managed to reach amateur dan level. [138]
Go is played on a plane grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board. Definition: A point on the board where a horizontal line meets a vertical line is called an intersection . Two intersections are said to be adjacent if they are distinct and connected by a horizontal or vertical line with no other intersections between them.
There is an abundance of go software available to support players of the game of Go.This includes software programs that play Go themselves, programs that can be used to view and/or edit game records and diagrams, programs that allow the user to search for patterns in the games of strong players and programs that allow users to play against each other over the Internet.