> Robert, David Fotland has... > I find your critique a little painful.
I don't think Robert was critiquing - he was asking for David's definition of group strength and connection strength. > the "stupid" monte carlo works so much better. Does it? I thought "stupid" monte carlo (i.e. light playouts MCTS) hits a scalability wall at around 5kyu. BTW, David, if you choose the CPU to suit it, can the traditional Many Faces beat the best MCTS programs? I find it interesting that monte-carlo needed a jump in CPU speed to reach the point where we could see its usefulness. I wonder if there are more traditional (*) techniques that got overlooked or abandoned 10 years ago because they were just too slow, which might now start to become reasonable. *: By "traditional" I guess I mean closer to the way humans approach the game of go, thinking in terms of eyes, groups, connections, influence, etc. Darren _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
