Hello Tony,
 
I'm just speaking for myself here, but I suspect you may not get the answers 
you are looking for, because you're not asking the right questions.
 
I get the impression that the situation is similar to this scenario:
 

                A young guy with a surf board and a hawai shirt turns up at 
basecamp on mount Everest and says:
                "Hey dudes, what's up!
                This morning I had this wonderful idea: I wanna climb the mount 
Everest!
                So here I am, and I even brought my hiking shoes!
                But can anyone give me directions to the nearest McDonalds, cuz 
I'm starving."
                 
                Everybody in the tent stares at him speechlessy.

I may be wrong, but that's my impression.
I'm not even sure whether if I myself should be here at basecamp, even though I 
am a 4d in Go and even though I have 25 years of programming experience in a 
couple of different languages (including the last 8 years as a fulltime 
professional developer.)
It's only logical that ever since I've learned Go 20 years ago I've had a 
special interest in computer-go and I spent some time over the years attempting 
to build a strong go playing program myself (although not nearly as much time 
as some others here).
I'm a mountaineer, but climbing the mount Everest is something else. I feel a 
bit like a rooky between all the seasoned mountaineers hanging around here at 
the Everest basecamp. Most of the time I keep my mouth shut when one of them is 
talking, because I'm a bit apprehensive that I might say something that is 
utterly obvious to the others or even outright stupid.
 
And then this guy turns up in his hawai shirt.
 
I hope you don't feel offended. Indeed you took up a wonderful endeavour, but I 
sense that you're not quite ready to go for the summit today.
 
Best Regards,
Dave

________________________________

Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens tony tang
Verzonden: do 13-11-2008 22:03
Aan: go mailing list
Onderwerp: RE: [computer-go] Monte carlo play


Thanks Darren,
 
After reading a couple of interesting papers on this field I am applying 
pattern matching to limit the number of possibilities of the monte carlo tree 
(on 19x19 it appears to take a day to play).
I was wondering if you could comment on weather my following concept is right 
on the evalution part.
 
The possible patterns for the current situation are passed to a class where 
self play begins. Each different pattern runs on a instance, and at the end the 
results are written into a file. The game tree will be constructed using the 
stats from the file. 
 
Thanks again
 
Tony
 
 


> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:34:21 +0900
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: computer-go@computer-go.org
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Monte carlo play
> 
> > I am new to programming go, could some one explain to me how a monte
> > carlo based evalution manages to play random games by itself? ie:
> > who/what is the oppoent which supplies the opposing moves which
> > allows another move to be randomly played after making the initial
> 
> It is self-play, so both players are random.
> 
> I'm not aware of any programs that use different playout strategies for
> black/white, though it has been briefly mentioned before on this list,
> and I personally think it might be interesting as a way of discovering
> and more accurately evaluating the imbalances present in most go
> positions (i.e. usually one side has more strength and one side has more
> territory, and so to correctly understand the position one side has to
> play aggressive moves and the other has to play defensive moves).
> 
> > move at the root. I am implementing in java, is there a
> > package/framework which allows me to train my software.
> 
> This page, recently started by Eric Marchand, might be a good starting
> place:
> http://ricoh51.free.fr/go/engineeng.htm
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
> -- 
> Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer
> http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic
> open source dictionary/semantic network)
> http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work)
> http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles)
> _______________________________________________
> computer-go mailing list
> computer-go@computer-go.org
> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/



________________________________

Get the best wallpapers on the Web - FREE. Click here! 
<http://wallpapers.msn.com/?ocid=[B001MSN42A0716B]>  
_______________________________________________
computer-go mailing list
computer-go@computer-go.org
http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Reply via email to