On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:01 -0500, George Dahl wrote: > So if I understand this correctly, you only allow moves on the 3rd, > 4th, or 5th lines to be considered (in both the tree and the playouts) > unless there is another stone within manhattan distance of two?
Correct. > > What would be really interesting is if one of the stronger open source > engines was modified to have this rule on 19 by 19. It seems like it > should surely help even a stronger engine if it only was applied in > the tree up to some fixed depth and with distance 3. If the rule > never eliminates the moves that the engine would have picked without > the rule it seems really unlikely to hurt performance. In 9x9 the distance 3 did not work as well. Intuitively, it seems to me (being a very weak go player) that 3 would be almost perfect and safe. But I noticed that with 3, very little is actually cut, perhaps just 2 or 3 moves really early in the opening. I have not yet tried distance 3 with 19x19. - Don > > So I think the results would be more and more interesting the stronger > the base version is. Is there a rule like this that fits pro play? > > - George > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Dailey <dailey....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 19x19 results of 3,4,5 rank rule: > > > > > > Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws > > 1 d2p 2050 21 21 273 57% 2000 0% > > 2 base 2000 21 21 273 43% 2050 0% > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
