On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:33:30AM +1000, djhbrown . wrote:
> However, i have to admit that in 1979 i was a false prophet when i claimed
> "the brute-force approach is a no-hoper for Go, even if computers become a
> hundred times more powerful than they are now" [Brown, D and S. Dowsey, S.
> The Challenge of Go. *New Scientist* 81, 303-305, 1979.].
I think you are right, though. In my opinion, calling MCTS "brute
force" isn't really fair, the brute force portion really doesn't work
and you need to add a lot of smarts both to the simulations and to the
way you pick situations to simulate to make things work.
--
Petr Baudis
If you have good ideas, good data and fast computers,
you can do almost anything. -- Geoffrey Hinton
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