> Do you have any indication, which can be derived from the playouts, > that a position might deserve an extra allotment of thinking time?
I've a half-finished article, called "Consistent PV Enchancement". This was inspired by looking at the prime variation information that Many Faces gives out (check View|Show Lookahead). E.g. if the top move is 55% to white, black's reply is 45%, etc. But nearer the bottom of the prime variation it has become 49% to white, 51% to black, then something fishy is going on, and it needs more time to investigate. The article is still unfinished as I started to feel it was just a minor tweak for time usage, rather than the big jump in strength I'd hoped for. Often it shows a bad move choice half way down the prime variation, but the conclusion at the start of the prime variation was still correct. Darren P.S. This was the case in one position I looked at today: almost the last move in the P.V. suddenly switched from about 40% on previous moves to 85% to black. But with 200,000 playouts, so quite a solid estimate. I played the P.V. out to that point and it was quite right - good for black. This was caused by a white mistake 3 moves before. Once I chose a better move there it went back to being good for white, so the estimate at the start of the prime variation seemed valid. -- 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/
