David, I did a statistical analysis of all the games on CGOS a while back and found that e5 is the move that wins the most games.
HOWEVER, I also found that if you mini-max 2 ply, then there is another move slightly stronger than e5. The reason e5 appears best statistically is that a lot of program don't play the correct response to it (which might by E7 but I don't remember off hand.) Of course I'm speaking statistically. I don't really know what the true best response really is. This doesn't mean that much - e5 may well be the best move but I'm just reporting the cgos statistics here. If you look at some old posts you may find my breakdown. I think I reported every response to e5 and what it's winning percentages were. To the best of my recollection this was 1-3 years ago or so. - Don On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 12:08 -0700, David Fotland wrote: > At this point I think everyone would agree that E5 is the optimal first move > for black on 9x9. > > Now that I have deeper and more accurate search, my engine favors E7 in > response to E5 by a large margin. Do the other strong programs also find > that E7 is best response? > > After E5 E7, there are several moves I've seen from strong engines. My > opinion as a go player is that best next move is either E3 or D6. My > program chooses different moves here depending on the search settings. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
