Don Dailey wrote: > There is some truth in that. It's possible that Zen is tuned up to play > really well at this time control but did one or more things that also make > it not possible to play much better no matter how much extra time it has. > But that seems like a real stretch to me.
I think you should not find a situation like that at all surprising. For example, in the 'scalability' study organised by Don Dailey, it turned out that the normal build of Mogo 'flattened out' well within the range of the study, but that recompiling it to use double-precision floating point numbers let it scale further. There are many opportunities in a Go program for similar effects to appear. (NB, the question isn't whether that build of Zen plays no better 'no matter how much extra time it has', but whether it plays no better given a small number of time doublings.) -M- _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
