Comment by teleforce
5 hours ago
>Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
English is not my first language but for clarity perhaps the title should be:
Go grandmaster Shin with a two-stone handicap defeats AI KataGo
5 hours ago
>Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
English is not my first language but for clarity perhaps the title should be:
Go grandmaster Shin with a two-stone handicap defeats AI KataGo
No. It’s not my first language too, but your version sounds odd. Usually you put an action first and only then the details
Trouble is, from the existing title it's not clear who had the handicap. So the poster is right to try and fix it.
Idiomatically a handicap is a disadvantage not an advantage. So if Shin had two extra stones, KataGo had a two stone handicap.
Handicaps can be positive, e.g. in fixed distance racing one way to handicap is to "give" a starting distance to the racers who are slower than the scratch racer; in this system a higher handicap is more of an advantage.
Since the AI was playing scratch (the normal, unmodified play style), it seems odd to say it had a handicap. Rather, the human had a positive handicap of two stones.