terry mcintyre wrote: > I promised an example of a monte carlo program mistakenly starting a > ladder; here it is. > > I played white; Leela had a 2 stone handicap and 45 minutes on the clock. > > Leela's move 32 initiates a ladder. Unfortunately for Leela, I have a > ladder breaker at D16. > > Leela's analysis was optimistic when it initiated the ladder, but a few > moves later, it became aware of the looming shadow of a great doom.
Leela reads out ladders, so I'm quite surprised to see this. I suspect the problem is that it overestimates it's chances to kill your group in the aftermath of the ladder, which doesn't directly have anything to do with the ladder itself. -- GCP _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/