This was not tested in any formal way, but including the book does seem
to increase the chance that the program will open with E5 (which I
believe is the correct opening move on 9x9) ...
Just a side note, as I've spent a lot of time studying high-level 9x9
games. I've seen strong players win
Thanks, Peter! I have a question or two regarding the opening book, based on a
collection of 3000 9x9 games provided by Nici Schraudolph. Who played the games
in this collecton - pros, strong amateurs, or go programs?
Second, were any statistics on the number of game moves in book versus
On 2/7/07, David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7, Feb 2007, at 1:35 PM, Don Dailey wrote:
Although suicide can occasionally be the best move in some
rule-sets, I think it weakens your program to include it,
At best you are going to get a ko threat, so it requires a pretty
You should never play suicide, whether multiple or single stone
in the play-out portion of the search - ESPECIALLY when it's not
legal anyway in the rule-set you are using.
Although suicide can occasionally be the best move in some
rule-sets, I think it weakens your program to include it,
even
Okay, thanks for the feedback. I mentioned that I was allowing
multi-stone suicide a couple days ago but no one said anything. It
seems little more complicated to check for than single-stone suicide
when only tracking pseudo-liberties. But I will get it in there and
see what kind of
By the way, the paper was rejected on first submission, largely
because we were just testing Orego against itself. We're now testing
Orego against GNU Go and have a revised version:
https://webdisk.lclark.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-2352013_1-t_Gct7yJ5s%22
(Markus, could you change the link and
