> My first impression of watching the game was that Leela was handicapped > by having a handicap. By that I mean it would have seen itself so far > ahead for the first few moves that is was playing arbitrarily.
In fact, Leela thought itself ahead at 80% for most of the game. It's only in the last 15 moves or so that the score started dropping. In the ending position it starts out at 40% and drops to 30% eventually. > but > surely you need an opening book to allow for the fact that evaluations > are going to have a high error margin in the early game? I don't like opening books. They are a liability when the rest of the program is still improving so quickly. > From another angle: if a UCT computer program is being given a handicap > against a stronger player it should lie to itself about the komi at the > start. It could then gradually adjust komi so it is at the correct value > by the early middle game (e.g. move 6 in 9x9 go, move 30 in 19x19 go). > Or it could keep adjusting komi (until it reaches the actual komi) so > that it thinks it is only just winning. There have been previous discussions about this. It may or may not work - I haven't tested it because there are annoying implementation side-effects. -- GCP _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
