I think there are 15 first moves in 9x9 go if you factor out the symetries. UCT isn't good at evauating all the moves, it will pick one of them and spend most of it's time on it. But you could search each 1 at a time.
The UCT programs are memory bound, so you could search each of these 15 moves 1 at a time and study the scores. - Don On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 04:41 -0800, steve uurtamo wrote: > > The average score can contain a very large proportion of losees if it is > > compensated by bigger wins. > > yes, it is easy to see how this might cripple the play of an MC player. > > that 90% territory win that requires 3 opponent blunders is tempting enough > to ignore the fact that all other non-blundering lines lead to 0.5 point > losses. > > i wonder if this kind of greediness might, however, be useful for selecting, > say, the first move or two in a 9x9 game. the thinking here is that since the > endgame is essentially noise at this point, you might as well be greedy > before tactics become an issue. that's probably faulty intuition, though. > > on another note, has anyone just let their MC code rip for a day or two (or > maybe a week or more) on the first move alone? i would think that if you > ordered the distribution of the resulting list, it would give very good > information > about how well MC acts as a board-eval function. (i.e. turn off all book > lines, > turn off all rules about not playing on the first line or two early in the > game, etc. > etc. turn off all heuristics related to the opening and then print the > distribution > over the board). what are the top, say, 10 moves on a 9x9 board and how are > they distributed, and the top, say, 40 moves on a 19x19 board along with their > distribution? if you fold board symmetries into your search, i suppose that > you > can get a factor of 8 here. > > my thinking is that if it's anything other than a very smooth distribution > among > the top moves, that's a good indicator. > > s. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > It's here! Your new message! > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
