> I agree that "proximity to last move" is an OK place to look > for moves to search, and I also think that I would *not* use > it as part of an evaluation function, that is, no extra value > for that fact.
I second that. Some statistics on the distance of a move from the previous move to back this up: 0-1: 21% 1-1: 12% 1-2: 9% 0-2: 6% 1-3: 4% x-y: Everything else is less than 2% each. This is based on thousands of professional 19x19 games. Together, this adds up to 52%, so yes, this is a good place to start looking, but it also means that for the other half of the moves proximity to the last move is not a good criteria. Anders Kierulf www.smartgo.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
