Here's an idea for scaling up, which should result in "only" factor of 10 slower speed. To scale from 9x9 to 19x19, subdivide the board into four, overlapping 10x10 boards. Run a standard 9x9 monte carlo up to the 90% full stage on each of the four boards, then run a full board monte on the whole board remaining.
Treat the ovelapping stripes as edges in a slightly more sophisticated way than usual, becuase you might be connecting to liberties by playing in the stripe. To avoid artifacts caused by the location of the overlaps: the number of zones, and the location of the stripes, is also subject to randomization. It might be interesting to try this on a 9x9 board using a 5x5 zone to begin with. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
