Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-03-01 Thread dhillismail
ownership maps and RAVE in ways that are a bit of a nuisance. - Dave Hillis -Original Message- From: Don Dailey To: computer-go Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 1:51 pm Subject: Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule? Has anyone done a good analysis on the value of the mercy rule?

Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-03-01 Thread Don Dailey
Has anyone done a good analysis on the value of the mercy rule? It is a major or minor speedup? And how does it affect the quality of the search? Is it more useful with bigger board sizes? It seems like I remember seeing that many believed it to be a very minor improvement if any, but I'm

Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-03-01 Thread Łukasz Lew
mercy rule in libego: http://github.com/lukaszlew/libego/blob/77b4dd4e035e4b44c17204557c9930a52e10e0c0/ego/playout.h line 55. Regards, Łukasz Lew On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:00, Seth Pellegrino wrote: > Hello list, > > I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back >

Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-02-27 Thread dhillismail
this. - Dave Hillis -Original Message- From: Seth Pellegrino To: computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 7:00 pm Subject: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule? Hello list,? ? I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back to a mail sent to

Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-02-26 Thread Petri Pitkanen
Libego has one type of mercy rule. Petri 2009/2/27 Seth Pellegrino : > Hello list, > > I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back > to a mail sent to this list by David Hillis: > > http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2006-December/007478.html > > I'm curr

[computer-go] Published source for mercy rule?

2009-02-26 Thread Seth Pellegrino
Hello list, I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back to a mail sent to this list by David Hillis: http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2006-December/007478.html I'm currently putting the finishing touches on a paper which includes this idea, and I