I do this for all board sizes, with the same bias.  Testing shows that the
bias makes it play weaker on 9x9, but I haven’t tried to tune 9x9
performance, so I haven't fixed this.

I didn’t test this bias independently of dymanic komi, so I don’t know if
they interact badly.

David

> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer"
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:02 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Computer-go] MC Beginner question
> 
> David wrote:
> > I use Many Faces's score estimate from the old evaluation function
> > to give a similar small bias in the UCT tree, with about the same
> > result.
> 
> Martin wrote:
> > > In Fuego, we give a small bonus for the size of the win/loss. So a
> win
> > > is worth between 0.98 and 1.00 depending on the size of the win,
> and a
> > > loss is worth 0.00 - 0.02. This gives a modest but measurable
> > > improvement in strength. And it also makes the moves look better,
> since
> > > otherwise the program has little sense of what good moves are when
> it
> > > is far ahead or far behind, and most of the stats look the same.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the information. Some more questions:
> 
> * Do you do this for 19x19 only, or also for 9x9 and 13x13?
> * If so, do you have other ranges (instead of 0.98 - 1.00 ...)
>   for the smaller board sizes?
> 
> * Did you observe, if these modifications in evaluation interfer with
>   dynamic/linear komi in some way?
> 
> Cheers, Ingo
> 
> 
> 
> 
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