Re: Breakthrough: FineArt giving handicap against pro players

Hi Hideki,

thanks for your posting.

> On Yugen-no-ma, Nihonkiin's online Go site, many (mainly 
> young) professionals have played more than 200 two-hc games 
> against Zen and its winrate is greater than 70%, AFICR.

Very interesting information, and congratulations
to Zen's performance.

* Do you remember when Zen started to give handicaps
against pro players?
* Is that the "normal" Zen version, or one that is
specially tuned for handicap games?

> #On even games (more than 2000), its recent winrate is about 
> 98%.

Having this in mind, it makes indeed sense that
Zen gives handicap stones.

Ingo.

PS. When will AlphaGo start giving handicaps against pro players?
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