It looks like we have a clear trend now. Light play-outs do not scale
as well as heavy play-outs.
This is the same behavior we get with computer chess. For the last few
decades it has been understood that a chess program with a better
evaluation function improves MORE with increasing depth than one with a
lesser evaluation function so it appears that Go is not unique in this
regard or in it's general ability to scale with CPU power.
Here are the latest results:
http://cgos.boardspace.net/study/13/index.html
- Don
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