[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After 2000 playouts, AntIgo checks the estimated score. If it's way > ahead, it stops thinking and just plays the best move it has so far. > This way it plays very quickly when the game is won and the opponent > does not resign. (I don't apply this rule in the beginning to avoid > confusion in handicap games.) > > AntIgo gambles that thinking a long time on early moves can buy it a > won position. Sometimes the gamble pays off, sometimes not. Another > benefit is that games against random/near-random bots are mercifully > swift. It's clearly a good gamble to front load the time fairly significantly. It's difficult to determine exactly how much though. Many games are won or lost after just a few moves. However games against the strong bots tend to stay relatively even for many moves.
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