Hi Don,
I am considering to change the time control when I change
over officially to 5 minutes instead of 10. 5 minutes seems
more than adequate for the Monte Carlo programs which play
quite strongly even at 2 minutes per game.
What does everything think about that?
I guess you mean everyone? :-) Or maybe I missed something :-/.
I think it is better and worse in the same time. 5 minutes is better
because it allows you to rate your program twice as fast, and the
rating is likely to be similar. The bad thing is that real good games
happen with more time, so I wonder how far the estimation would be
from the strength of the program in "real" conditions. Of course we
can count on the scalability of the algorithm, but still.
I personally do almost all my tests with 3k simulations per move, and
count on the scalability.
But I wanted to raise the point. For example I think things like seki
would take importance only with stronger programs so only with more
time.
I don't have a strong opinion on that.
Sylvain
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