Do you have any good ways to see the differences between the 7.5 book and
what there is of the 6.5 book?  If there are very few differences there,
then there will probably be very few differences between 7.5 and 7.0.  Plus,
the differences that you do see could be noise.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Martin Mueller <[email protected]>wrote:

> 5x1000 games, no opening book, Fuego svn version 1467.
> Number of simulations varied from 3K (3000) per move to 300K.
> I was interested in whether the recent fix to allow Fuego to play for draws
> with integer komi worked, and whether the number of draws increases with
> longer searches.
>
> Here are the results:
>
>  3K simulations: 9.5% draws, 52.4% wins by Black
>  10K simulations: 8.8% draws, 47.7% wins by Black
>  30K simulations: 11.2% draws, 49% wins by Black
> 100K simulations: 10.6% draws, 45.9% wins by Black
> 300K simulations: 13.8% draws, 46.1% wins by Black
>
> So there seems to be a slight increase in draws. It is interesting that
> Black has an advantage, e.g. with 300K White wins only 100-13.8-46.1 =
> 40.1%.
>
> I wonder how to do the similar test with an opening book. We now have a
> quite large book for 7.5 komi, and a smaller book for 6.5 komi. Using the
> 7.5 book with a komi of 7 for White will make the program equally happy with
> a draw-or-win while in the book. Using it with Black will make it try to
> avoid draws.
>
> Of course, we could build a new book with 7.0 komi. But it would be nice to
> be able to control between "must-win" and "happy-with-draw" situations.
>
>        Martin
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