On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:01:08PM -0500, Don Dailey wrote:
> It's naive to think some simplistic deception imposed upon the program
> is going to correct the error when you don't even know if the program is
> erring in the first place. How can you say, "the program thinks it
> is losing, but it MUST be in error and I'm going to change the komi so
> that it will 'play better'?" You must have some basis for knowing the
> program is in error before you can lower it's goal.
I think there is a misunderstanding here, this was (I suppose) never to
correct error in program's perception of the board. (From watching MoGo
and such, it often overestimates its board position, but rarely
underestimates it. :-)
The point here is to prevent the program from playing the "MC-hamete"
moves that in most cases have no hope of working, but instead still aim
at a close game and wait for some opponent's yose mistake. This closely
matches human approach to the game as well - if you are confident in
yose and see you are only little behind, you frequently don't start
overplaying hopelessly, but instead still play the best you can and hope
for an overturn in yose.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- J. W. von Goethe
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