On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 01:34 +0000, Claus Reinke wrote: > As a relative beginner in these matters, the more I look at AMAF, > the less I like it, and I think that has to do with AMAF ignoring > relative sequencing. By looking at all moves as if they were played > first, it ignores that some moves only make sense after certain other > moves.
I feel the same way, but the bottom line is that it WORKS. It works incredible well in fact. I was hard pressed to prove that just looking at the FIRST move only is better, although intuitively I'm sure it is. What you do is only look at the first move if you want to be anal about it. Or if you have lots of time only look at the first move. Or you can be adaptive about it. Look at ALL moves then as the number of playouts increase, gradually give less and less priority to the remaining moves. Michael Williams suggested de-emphasizing later moves but still using them and this works quite well. - Don
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