On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Don Dailey wrote:
advantageous to give away stones that not. Despite what many people believe, MC programs don't normally believe it's better to win small and they are not hell-bent on giving away stones in order to try to make the score come out to be exactly 0.5 win.
You are correct that it is not explicitly programmed into the MC programs to win by 0.5 pts, but since most of them don't care about the margin they in practice often do. As you might remember I (3 kyu) played many games on CGOS and many games that I lost, I actually lost by 0.5 pts. It mostly worked like this: I am behind by several points in the early endgame, then the programs allow me to gain a point here, or there. But in the end they still win by 0.5 pts. These programs are NOT "hell-bent on losing", they just dont care if the UCT-tree shows that they win anyway. Christoph _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
