Many Faces uses quite light playouts, and is 1 kyu 19x19 on KGS when run on 32 cores. So I think you can make a fairly strong program using light playouts. My playouts are certainly far lighter than Crazystone or Mogo.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Cook > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:17 PM > To: computer-go > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Go/Games with modified scores > > > Second, having now looked at some more random "light playouts" > > ... > > an empty board, but if you look at move 300 and try to compare the > > strings and eyes that almost make it vs those that do, it drives home > > the message that the individual run is nearly meaningless,... > > Hi Claus, > You'll probably enjoy an article I wrote last year on this theme: > http://dcook.org/compgo/article_the_problem_with_random_playouts.html > > Darren > > > -- > Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer > http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic > open source dictionary/semantic network) > http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) > http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) > _______________________________________________ > 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/
