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> The victory was not quite a Deep Blue moment; Crazy Stone was given a small handicap, and Ishida is no longer in his prime. As I heard the story, the compute
by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
> The victory was not quite a Deep Blue moment; Crazy Stone was given a small handicap, and Ishida is no longer in his prime.
As I heard the story, the computer received something like 4 stones (a moderate handicap), and was playing against someone who no longer was top-of-the-world, but was still a strong player.
This is very different than beating the world champion in a fair game.
- karamazov 12y agoA four-stone handicap is not small: a beginning professional player could give any top Go player (there are several major championships) a run for his money with 4 stones.
- NhanH 12y agoJust to clarify: a beginning professional player (as in, a player who is considered of professional rank in the Go world, but just in the beginning of their career) will beat any top Go player with 99%+ certainty at 4 stones. The difference between professional players are far less than 4 stones. If you meant a student studying to be a professional, then 4 stones would probably be true for an even chance game.