[computer-go] Observations on pure MC players

2007-02-20 Thread Heikki Levanto
I have been playing with pure MC players, thanks to Lukas Lew's library. I noticed that they tend to play silly moves, like putting the opponent into atari, even if the move is a self-atari as well. Any reasonable player can see that it won't work. But as long as there are enough alternative

Re: [computer-go] Observations on pure MC players

2007-02-20 Thread Don Dailey
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 14:22 +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote: I have been playing with pure MC players, thanks to Lukas Lew's library. I noticed that they tend to play silly moves, like putting the opponent into atari, even if the move is a self-atari as well. Any reasonable player can see that

Re: [computer-go] Observations on pure MC players

2007-02-20 Thread Don Dailey
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 12:27 -0500, Don Dailey wrote: Wasn't Anchorman some version of MC? One other comment about AnchorMan - it's a tiny low resource program. It's not very strong (1500 on CGOS) but it is a very simple and fast program. It plays pretty close to full strength in just a