On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Daniel Shawul <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I think you did something wrong then, because it is very helpful in go.
You should easily see the equivalent of 30 or 40 ELO and would need only a
few hundred games to clearly identify this as an improvement.

Don



>
>
> 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
>>>
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