Le vendredi 22 décembre 2006 16:21, Don Dailey a écrit : > Hi Steve, > > > In a high handicap game, a monte carlo program is > likely to play the first few move randomly. Statistically > they won't be able to see how C3 is any better than A19 > and so they will inadvertently give the weaker opponent the > win. Presumably the handicap gives both player equal chances, > so the stronger player, despite his superiority, cannot be > doing this. > > - Don >
This is an MC issue, that need to be fixed, like a decent endgame, where taking safe points does not hurt. As you know GNU Go does not suffers from this (because it tries to maximise territory) but this give another weakness : manage to lose a won game due to greedyness. Alain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
