You should never play suicide, whether multiple or single stone
in the play-out portion of the search - ESPECIALLY when it's not
legal anyway in the rule-set you are using.

Although suicide can occasionally be the best move in some
rule-sets,  I think it weakens your program to include it,
even in the UCT tree portion of an MC search.  If the rule-set
allows suicide, I believe it's best to just let your program
accept suicide moves from the opponent.

- Don



On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:23 -0800, Christoph Birk wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Chris Fant wrote:
> > Your paper does not mention suicide.  Prohibiting single-stone suicide
> > during playout gave me a nice increase in playout rate and strength.
> 
> Does you program allow multiple-stone suicide during playout?
> myCtest does NOT allow it; and neither does GenericMC_ by Don.
> 
> Christoph
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