Because you test it both ways, and one wins more games. Many things about the playout policy are mysterious and can only be tested to see if they make play stronger. Often the results of testing are counterintuitive. I'd guess only about a quarter of the things I tried in Many Faces made the program stronger.
I can think of several possible explanations, but that's not science, it's telling a story with no evidence. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Computer-go [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Charles Leedham-green > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 3:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules > > I have been told that bots that are based on MC play better when they only > record the result of each roll out (W or L) rather than the margin of > victory. > > To me this is counter-intuitive. > > Does anyone have an intelligible reason why it should be so? > > Charles > > > On 8 Dec 2016, at 22:56, Erik van der Werf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:58 PM, "Ingo Alth fer" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Playing under such conditions might be a challenge for the bots > > > > Why? Do you think the humans will collude? ;-) > > > > Erik. > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
