-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrés,
You are right about null move of course. The assumption that other moves are >= to the value of a pass is much stronger in GO than in Chess, yet ironically it's not as effective in Go. - - Don Andrés Domínguez wrote: > 2007/10/9, Eric Boesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 10/8/07, Tapani Raiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> May sound unpolite. But Deep Blue reached a very >>>> important step in IA. They will be known for ever. >>>> But, from a research point of view, they didn't much >>>> really. It was mainly a technological/technical >>>> achivement. >>>> >>> Maybe they will reimplement Mogo, try a null-move tweak, use a >>> supercomputer, and claim to have the strongest computer Go player ever. :-) >> Naive null move is unhelpful because throughout much of a go game, >> almost every move is better than passing, > > I think this is not the point of null move. Null move is "if pass is good > enough > to an alpha cut, then will be a _better_ move". It is not important if > pass is the > worse move, is important that there is a better (>=) move than pass (not > zugzwang). Then you bet searching not so deep. > > But null nove is not a trick in Go, because pass is always a legal move. There > isn't zugzwang in Go. > > Andrés > > Sorry my bad english > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDDBtDsOllbwnSikRAki9AKDnb8vj/606wCP/AEIZaEbRSXhg+gCfVO+G 3rW+K09cKN25k4Ro4yJJbnc= =awa+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
