The technique originated with backgammon players in the late 1970's, who would roll out positions manually. Ron Tiekert (Scrabble champion) also applied the technique to Scrabble, and I took that idea for Maven. It seemed like people were using the terms interchangeably.
-----Original Message----- From: Computer-go [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Darren Cook Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 6:16 AM To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] On proper naming > but then it does not make sense to call that algorithm "rollout". > > In general: when introducing a new name, care should be taken that the > name describes properly what is going on. Speaking of which, why did people start calling them rollouts instead of playouts? Darren P.S. And don't get me started on "chains": at one point this seemed to be the standard term for a solidly connected set of stones, the basic unit of tactical search (as distinguished from a "group", which is made up of 1+ chains). But then somewhere along the way people started calling them strings. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
