Since I've started thinking about adding 3x3 patterns in my own code, has
anything ever evolved from this? For example, I'd be interested in
contrasting the frequency of playing a pattern with the frequency that the
opportunity to play the pattern pops up.

On 5/26/07, Peter Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've thrown together a rudimentary pattern extractor and was looking at
> 3x3 patterns taken from a collection of 9x9 games provided by Nici
> Schraudolph.  Each game was played throughin each of the four rotations
> and two reflections. Colors were inverted every other move, so all of these
> patterns have black to play in the center.
>
> Looking at the data below, it appears that:
>
> a) It might be better to somehow take into account the ratio between how
> often the pattern appeared and how often the corresponding move was played.
> b) Endgame moves appear often, because they get played sooner or later.
> c) Tesuji don't appear as often as one would hope. Connecting against a
> peep, making a bamboo joint, and the diagonal cut are not among the top
> patterns.
>
> Let the thread begin!
>
> The actual information:
>
> 134008 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> ...
>
> (Fair enough, you need a lot of these.)
>
> 9794 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> Bw.
>
> (And similarly for the other 7 transformations of this. Hane.)
>
> 7444 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> .w.
>
> (3 transformations. Contact play or attachment.)
>
> 7170 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> w..
>
> (3 transformations. Shoulder hit.)
>
> 5512 occurrences of
> ###
> .?.
> Bw.
>
> (7 transformations. Hane underneath -- is there another term?)
>
> 4840 occurrences of
> ...
> w?.
> Bw.
>
> (3 transformations. Crosscut.)
>
> 4489 occurrences of
> ...
> w?.
> wB.
>
> (7 transformations. Is there a name for this?)
>
> 4054 occurrences of
> ...
> B?.
> wB.
>
> (3 transformations. Preventing a crosscut? Closed triangle?)
>
> 3922 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> wB.
>
> (7 transformations. Anti-hane?)
>
> 3806 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> B..
>
> (3 transformations. Diagonal connection.)
>
> 3656 occurrences of
> ###
> .?.
> BwB
>
> (3 transformations. Connection underneath.)
>
> 3597 occurrences of
> ...
> w?.
> .B.
>
> (7 transformations. Name?)
>
> 3197 occurrences of
> ...
> w?.
> BB.
>
> (7 transformations. Another full triangle.)
>
> 3196 occurrences of
> ..#
> .?#
> Bw#
>
> (7 transformations. Blocking on the first line -- VERY endgame.)
>
> 2986 occurrences of
> ###
> B?.
> wB.
>
> (7. Connecting on the first line?)
>
> 2892 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> BwB
>
> (3. Potentially a capture.)
>
> 2456 occurrences of
> ...
> .?.
> wBw
>
> (3. The opposite of the previous pattern.)
>
> 2300 occurrences of
> ###
> .?.
> Bww
>
> (7. Name?)
>
>
> Peter Drake
> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/ <http://www.lclark.edu/%7Edrake/>
>
>
>
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