Thanks for the information. I’ll try out BT2. Against LazyBot I was just then able to get a draw in a blitz game with 3 seconds increment, which I don’t think I could do within a few tries against an opponent of, say, low grandmaster strength (with low grandmaster strength being quite far way away from superhuman still). Since pure policy does not improve with thinking time, I think my chances would be much better at longer time controls. Certainly its lichess rating at slow time controls suggests that T80 is not more than master strength when its human opponents have more than 15 minutes for the whole game.
Self-play elo vastly exaggerates playing strength differences between different networks, so I would not expect a BT2 vs T80 difference of 100 elo points to translate to close to 100 elo playing strength difference against humans.
Yes, clearly the less time the human has, the better Leela will do relatively. One thing to note though is that Lichess Elo isn’t completely comparable across different time controls. If you look at the player leaderboard, you can see that the top scores for bullet are ~600 greater than for classical, so scores need to be interpreted in context.
Self-Elo inflation is a fair point to bring up and I don’t have information on how well it translates.
Thanks for the information. I’ll try out BT2. Against LazyBot I was just then able to get a draw in a blitz game with 3 seconds increment, which I don’t think I could do within a few tries against an opponent of, say, low grandmaster strength (with low grandmaster strength being quite far way away from superhuman still). Since pure policy does not improve with thinking time, I think my chances would be much better at longer time controls. Certainly its lichess rating at slow time controls suggests that T80 is not more than master strength when its human opponents have more than 15 minutes for the whole game.
Self-play elo vastly exaggerates playing strength differences between different networks, so I would not expect a BT2 vs T80 difference of 100 elo points to translate to close to 100 elo playing strength difference against humans.
Yes, clearly the less time the human has, the better Leela will do relatively. One thing to note though is that Lichess Elo isn’t completely comparable across different time controls. If you look at the player leaderboard, you can see that the top scores for bullet are ~600 greater than for classical, so scores need to be interpreted in context.
Self-Elo inflation is a fair point to bring up and I don’t have information on how well it translates.