Bruno Bouzy gives it credit for a 1% strength improvement in the tutorial: "Old-fashioned Computer Go vs Monte-Carlo Go" http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~bouzy/publications/CIG07-tutorial-1avril2007.pdf (It's a pretty good read in general, btw.)
The Mercy rule interacts with ownership maps and RAVE in ways that are a bit of a nuisance. - Dave Hillis -----Original Message----- From: Don Dailey <dailey....@gmail.com> To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 1:51 pm Subject: Re: [computer-go] Published source for mercy rule? Has anyone done a good analysis on the value of the mercy rule? It is major or minor speedup? And how does it affect the quality of the earch? Is it more useful with bigger board sizes? It seems like I remember seeing that many believed it to be a very minor mprovement if any, but I'm curious if that is the current nderstanding (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/ _______________________________________________ omputer-go mailing list omputer...@computer-go.org ttp://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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