> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Osgood > > This is a different kind of opening book than I'm thinking of. You > are both talking about cached computation, whereas I consider an > opening book as codified theory and wisdom gained over the entire > history of the game (semeais and joseki). How could adding > established semeai and joseki patterns (probably for early move > selection and bias) to a program make it weaker? If anything, the > global view of full-board MCTS has the potential to make better use > of semeai and joseki patterns than the classical shallow-search > programs. >
Many Faces has a large opening book, and the UCT version uses all of Many Faces' knowledge. It has a full board book built from about 50K professional and another 50K strong amateur games. It has a joseki book built from every move in every book of joseki published in English before 2002, and a few joseki from a huge Japanese language joseki dictionary. For 9x9 it has a fuseki book from pro and CGOS strong program games. I think the books help, but I didn't test it yet. David _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
