easiest way to use the power of the gpu) the result should be more meaningful too. Has anyone done any test like that (like use gnugo level 0 instead of an MC-playout) ? Does anyone have a minimalistic non-MC go engine I could look at ? One more thing - has anyone tried using quasi-MC for go ?
I have only disappointing answers :-)
Using a good player instead of MC has been used with negative results - the quality of the MC as a player is not the best criterion for evaluating a MC as a building block in bandit-based Monte-Carlo planning. I have not implemented anything myself, but you'll find informations in past posts in the mailing lists. Quasi-MC is difficult to do - some things have been tried here, without positive results (and often negative ones :-) ). More precisely, pairing simulations has been tried without success; also, the variance of MC is seemingly important as reducing it by averaging is not efficient (at least, I believe that :-) ). Olivier _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
