Quoting Chrilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
only play infinite fast. Its an interesting question if Monte-Carlo
programms would also play infinite strong.
I think they will play very strong. Sofar all my tests indicates nice scaling,
but I admit I have not tried a proper experiment for a long time since
I do not
have any extra hardware. Perhaps the Mogo team could do something but the
problem is that Mogo is so strong it would beat most programs 100% with modest
increases in computation time on 9x9.
The problem might still be the opening, I tried some experiments on 7x7, and
there the scaling is good in the middle game and the endgame is already
excellent, but the opening moves can sometimes be very odd and deeper search
might even make it worse. I think the reason for this is that the objective
values of moves are very similar in the opening, and then human
knowledge about
shapes are necessary to rule that bad ones. Later in the game most moves are
objectively really bad so MonteCarlo works very nice.
Also bugs might surface, for example Valkyria often misunderstands
sekis and one
can sometimes trick it into positions where a seki finally wins the game.
-Magnus
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