(I'd like to hijack Denis's mail; I've changed the subject)
My tests shows that even with as few as 10 amaf simulation per move,
the win rate against the pure-random strategy is almost 100%.
I'd thought people were saying that AMAF only helped with weak bots.
Once the playouts were cleverer,
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(I'd like to hijack Denis's mail; I've changed the subject)
My tests shows that even with as few as 10 amaf simulation per move,
the win rate against the
Quoting Darren Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But that is just an impression I'd picked up from day to day reading of
this list; and at CG2008 people were still talking about AMAF in their
papers (*). Can someone with a strong bot confirm or deny that AMAF is
still useful?
Valkyria probably has the
AMAF is very powerful. It's all in the details of course but for a
given level of CPU effort, you can pull more information using AMAF.
I think the way it's used in strong programs is that it's gradually
phased out, which is probably the best way to use it. At some point
AMAF loses to pure
