Magnus, I applied my analogy to Mogo, but I really meant any good UCT program such as yours - I just forgot who I was responding to in my last email.
- Don On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:13 +0100, Magnus Persson wrote: > Quoting Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't understand who the players were in the 9 handicap game. > > Who received the handicap and who was Valkyria's opponent? > > > > Was the opponent the un-pruned version of Valkyria? > > No, the opponent was myself, european 2 Dan as white taking a 9 handicap on > 19x19. If a program can give me trouble with 9 stones then I consider it as > strong for a program. I might also be playing a little nice when I test my > programs, since I want to see how it reacts to proper moves not to really > aggressive tricky ones. > > > more comments below ... > > This is clearly true - but probably because the games are much longer. > > With > > some 19x19 experiments I did using my old-fashioned MC program (which > > has > > limited scaling) the improvements were enormous with a doubling of the > > number of play-outs. With 9x9 the improvements were also significant, > > but not nearly so much. > > When I watch Valkyria analyze a 19x19 position it often goees like this: > > For the first 30 seconds or so it almost random, it does not have the > statistical power to pick out good moves. > > Then it starts jump around between some moves that at least make sense. > > After 2-10 minutes it might actually pick out one or more really good moves > which one would expect a 10 kyu player to play. > > But often it also suddenly pick a really bad move and play it so the > descrioption above is a little idealized. Some critical move it actually finds > after a few seconds so I really have to use some more flexible time control. > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
