You just can try few, and look whether the percentage of playout wins doesn't change too much. You probably need more that one starting position to test the rule.
Lukasz On 1/15/07, George Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What should the mercy threshold be for other board sizes than 9 by 9, particularly 19 by 19? - George Dahl > > > > Here are a few speedup tricks that have helped me. > > > > 1. The mercy rule. Since I'm incrementally keeping track of a list of empty > > points, it's no real extra pain to keep track of the number of black and > > white stones on the board. If the difference between them exceeds a > > threshold, the game is over. Ending early has an added bonus that I know the > > outcome without needing to score the board. (You can shoot yourself in the > > foot here. Best to pick a more conservative threshold the closer you are to > > interior nodes of the tree.) For exterior nodes far from any interior nodes, > > I use a threshold of 25 stones. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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