Physics temperature is a macroscopic description (global) of the underlying (un)-stability, so it comes to mind very quickly :) Unfortunately the term temperature used in Computer Game theory is misleading for physicists. CGT-temperature = value of the best move in go, this has very little relation do with a global description of unstability.
(I propose to ban the term "temperature" from CGT, and replace it by "value", unless someone can explain the link with temperature in physics, and shows some identical properties ;-) Le jeudi 1 mars 2007 08:27, Darren Cook a écrit : > Just trying to understand what you guys are talking about... I realize > it is a rather small picture, but do the terminal positions of 19x19 > games between very strong players show more fractal qualities (or some > other physics "thing") than between, say, 15 kyu amateurs? Yes. Pro games are near a limit of (un)-stability. It seems one see the kind of physics he knows better (D.Doshay sees magnetic transition, D.Hillis percolation and spin glass, i see fluid dynamics and solidification ...) The common denominator is a critical state, with sudden change in properties, from a "nearly homogeneous" state. - Beginners are under critical - Pro near critical - (Quasi) Random players above critical. > > Or, from another angle, how do you imagine a very large board would look > in a game between two very strong players? And would it be any different > for 15 kyu players? For sure. On 19x19 one can estimate players strenght by seeing a position. 15 kyu is ugly ;) (overconcentrated, hyperstatic, not mixed, very little Work of stones/groups, ...) Alain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
