Re: [gnugo-devel] Gnugo difficulty scale?

[Paul Pogonyshev]

David C. Hurd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     Please forgive me for asking such a dull-witted question but in the 
> difficulty slider from 1-10 which is the most difficult end?  I'm 
> thinking 10 is but when I play with a 6 stone handicap (I'm pretty much 
> a rank beginner) any number in the slider seems to be the same 
> difficulty of play.
> 
>     Thanks for your time in answering this question.

10 is more difficult.  Actually, there is no upper limit, but levels above
maybe 15 are virtually untested.  GNU Go may take hours to generate a
single move at very high levels or crash or suddenly become weaker...  But
we are pretty sure that level 12 is stronger than 10 and 15 is most likely
stronger still.

Paul