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Perfect--now a back up question

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 31 March 2014, at 11:05 p.m.

In Response To: Perfect--now a back up question (phil simborg)

Phil asks:

When a Giant plays under 1.5 is it possible that in order to play so well he must make the same mistakes XG is making, or is it possible that he is really playing better than XG and should have even a lower PR because some of the plays he is making differently are better than XG?

It's certainly possible for a human to play better than XG. But I think you're looking in the wrong place if you're focusing on PR's of 1.5 or lower. A more likely candidate, I think, is a superbackgame in which "God" would assign a PR of (say) 4.0 to the human player and (say) 10.0 to XG, and XG would rate itself as perfect but rate the human player as a 10.0+.

Messages In This Thread

• When XG is wrong
  phil simborg -- Thursday, 27 February 2014, at 8:15 p.m.
  • When XG is wrong
    Bill Riles -- Thursday, 27 February 2014, at 8:45 p.m.
    • When XG is wrong
      Seth -- Thursday, 27 February 2014, at 9:42 p.m.
  • When XG is wrong
    Keene -- Thursday, 27 February 2014, at 9:57 p.m.
  • When XG is wrong
    Igor -- Thursday, 27 February 2014, at 11:59 p.m.
    • When XG is wrong
      Bob Koca -- Friday, 28 February 2014, at 6:21 a.m.
    • When XG is wrong
      Maik Stiebler -- Friday, 28 February 2014, at 9:13 p.m.
  • When XG is wrong
    Jason Lee -- Friday, 28 February 2014, at 1:28 a.m.
    • When XG is wrong
      Casper Van der Tak -- Friday, 28 February 2014, at 9:59 a.m.
  • When XG is wrong
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 31 March 2014, at 2:43 p.m.
    • Perfect--now a back up question
      phil simborg -- Monday, 31 March 2014, at 10:47 p.m.
      • Perfect--now a back up question
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 31 March 2014, at 11:05 p.m.