On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:16:25AM +0200, Oliver Lewis wrote: > > You should also read up on the "all moves as first" (AMAF) technique. This > is even more surprising because it attributes the outcome of a random game > to every move of that colour during the random game, as if that was the move > that had been played first. This generates information to help rank the > moves even more quickly.
Actually, it is not so surprising. Since the playouts are random, they have no idea of urgency - they leave large groups in atari for many moves, and it is a toss of a coin who plays to the crucial point first. Most likely it does not happen on the first move. But if that is the game-deciding point, it makes sense to give credit to who ever got to play it. -H -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
