Keeping a real tree is of course tivial.  I guess you mean a way to preserve
the benefits of transposition while also maintaining admisibility.  That
does seem like it would be tricky.



On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Michael Williams <[email protected]>:
>
>
>>> The Valkyria tree is not a pure tree, because a node can have several
>>> parents if more than one sequence leads to a position.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Magnus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I think this is common, but inadmissable in the strictest sense,
>> right?  Because the optimal action for a node depends on it's history of
>> positions thanks to the super ko rule.
>>
>> What was the word Don used for techniques like this?  I mean techniques
>> that
>> are not going to lead to perfect play given infinite time and memory.
>>
>>
> Yes, you are right. For the next rewrite of Valkyria I actually think i
> rediscovered some algorithm to solve this but it is painfully complicated to
> implement.
>
> Luckily it is extremely rare that affect play (I think).
>
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