I didnt test pondering, so I have no answer for you. I just make the computer's move and do a search for the opponent while he is thinking, and hope there is some interesting cached data after he makes his move. I dont have a tree, just a huge transposition table, so anything useful that happens to be searched will still be there.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer" > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen! > > Hi David, > thx for sharing this info. > > Did you see an improvement by the pondering? > How "far" did you spread the search in the pondering process? > > Is there some paper describing standard ways of pondering > in Monte-Carlo environments? > > Ingo. > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Mon, 9 May 2011 23:20:48 -0700 > > Von: "David Fotland" <[email protected]> > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen! > > > Many Faces was running on a 12 core Xeon with time donated by > Microsoft. > > This is the first monthly tournament where I'm using pondering. > > > > David > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Wedd > > > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 9:23 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen! > > > > > > Congratulations to Zen19, undefeated winner of yesterday's KGS bot > > > tournament! > > > > > > My report is at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/71/index.html > > > and as usual, I will welcome your corrections and comments. > > > > > > Nick > > > -- > > > Nick Wedd [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Computer-go mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > -- > NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! > > Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
