I have this idea that perhaps a good evaluation function could
replace the play-out portion of the UCT programs. The evaluation
function would return a value between 0 and 1 and would be an
estimate of the odds of winning.
I have tried this with an older and much weaker version of Suzie. It played
positionally better than the Alpha-Beta version, but the rate of very
strange moves also increased. UCT greates a more unbalanced tree than
Alpha-Beta and the programm has therefore even more chances to "cheat". For
the same reason extensions do not work so far in Suzie.
But I tried not with 0-1 but used the full eval. Maybe I should give it a
second try. But as I work now 45 hours/week on Computer-Tomography (which is
also quite interesting) and comute each weekend between Germany and Austria
its difficult to do.
Chrilly
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