Hi, This is probably very close to useless, but it might be fun in a geeky kind of way :-) It might not be novel, either.
I ran some playout games without komi (with simple policies: capture atari, escape atari, simple 3x3 patterns) and plotted the distribution of scores. I thought that the top of the bell curve would be placed at the ideal komi - well, close to it, as the playouts aren't very smart. The engine I used is Orego 7.10 and its scoring functionality. For 9x9 and ten million games, the top seems to be around 7. For 19x19 I only ran one million games and the top is difficult to locate precisely, it's quite flat between 3 and 21. The middle of this interval is around 11, which feels a bit high. I plan to let it run a while longer. regards, Vlad _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
