I have two forms of pondering (thinking like the opponent OR predicting opponent move and thinking for ours). None of them brought me significant benefit which i suspect is due to the vast amount of good options and the fact that MC can pick any of them randomly.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Aja <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ingo, > > Time management algorithms, like pondering, is one of the major topics in > my thesis. I have proved by the expeirments, though with fast time setting, > that pondering brings a lot of strength. > > Aja > > -----原始郵件----- From: "Ingo Althöfer" > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:09 PM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen! > > Did or can you make self-play experiments with MF, > the copies running on two different machines? > > - one with pondering > - the other without > > Perhaps such experiments also on smaller board sizes > (9x9, 11x11, 13x13) might give insights on scaling. > > Ingo (is not a programmer, > but wants to know everything from the programmers) > > > Von: "David Fotland" <[email protected]> >> >> I didn’t 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 >> don’t >> have a tree, just a huge transposition table, so anything useful that >> happens to be searched will still be there. >> >> David >> > > -- > 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 >
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