Has anyone done a good analysis on the value of the mercy rule? It is a major or minor speedup? And how does it affect the quality of the search? Is it more useful with bigger board sizes?
It seems like I remember seeing that many believed it to be a very minor improvement if any, but I'm curious if that is the current understanding (as I have not experimented with it myself.) - Don On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 18:28 +0100, Łukasz Lew wrote: > mercy rule in libego: > http://github.com/lukaszlew/libego/blob/77b4dd4e035e4b44c17204557c9930a52e10e0c0/ego/playout.h > line 55. > > Regards, > Łukasz Lew > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:00, Seth Pellegrino <se...@lclark.edu> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back > > to a mail sent to this list by David Hillis: > > > > http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2006-December/007478.html > > > > I'm currently putting the finishing touches on a paper which includes this > > idea, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any published sources where I > > could cite the idea? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Seth Pellegrino > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
