On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:33:16PM -0800, Dave Dyer wrote:
> > 
> > To a first order approximation, would changing the komi change the
> > rankings?  Presumably, programs are playing the same number of games
> > as black and white, so any "unfair" advantage or disadvantage black 
> > has would balance out.
> > 
> > Komi only matters when there is only one game between a pair of opponents.
> 
> This has nothing to do with black/white distinction. The idea is to
> dynamically adjust the komi to make UCT to aim at higher and potentially
> less sure win or lower and potentially more sure loss. Of course,
> depending on whether it takes black or white you would adjust the komi
> in the correct direction.

I assume that when you change komi dynamically, all that was learned
by MC so far under the different komi value is useless/wrong.

Thomas

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