On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:50:05PM +0200, Stefan Kaitschick wrote:
> Ah ok. You don't use it for white in a handicap game?
Handicap games are just special cases, what I detect are good-for-white
and good-for-black positions. White in a handicap game is a
good-for-black position. See
http://pasky.or.cz/go/dynkomi.pdf
(recently updated preprint) for details.
> For black I would wave my hands differently:
> Since the opponent must be stronger, it's a good heuristic to assume
> a problem with your own analysis if you think your improving.
I'm not sure that is satisfactory explanation. Even after 100000s of
simulations, you cannot disable the ratchet after *once* in the game
you had to set it (i.e. the prospects got worse than before).
I'd have few of hand-waving explanations myself, but I think this
requires some serious analysis and more experiments.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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