On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:11:05AM -0400, fastgo wrote: > > In StoneGrid, it has built in the Benson algorithm in the playout. It > does > > not seem to help much on overall strength. But I think it should solve > the > > case here. > > > > I think you can implement the Benson Algorithm in the late stage of the > > playout. > > > > It has another advantage finishing the playout in shorter length. In > > StoneGrid, the playout on average finishes in a little bit more than 70 > > stones on 9x9. > > > > You need quite a lot of effort to get it fast as well as correct. So the > > return of the effort is low. > > Do you also use this on 19x19? > > One of my long-standing worries is that especially on 19x19, the playout > takes awfully long and the second half of the moves are almost all > totally meaningless, but with all the expensive heuristics etc. still > being computed. It seems to me that a lot of time is wasted this way > and that Benson life detector would help even much more here, so I'm > surprised you do not see it as that much of an improvement. >
Benson is very slow to calculate so it is not a free speedup. > > -- > Petr "Pasky" Baudis > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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