When using patterns during the playout I had improvised some code to select patterns randomly, but favour those with higher weights more or less proportionally to the weight..
I was wondering though if there's an established algorithm for something like this. To be a little more precise, if I have a set of values and two of those are represented by A and B. If A is twice as high as B it should have twice the chance to be selected. If there's a third value C that is 1.5 times A then it should be 1.5 times as likely to be selected as A and 3 times as likely as B. Etc. There are many strategies I can think of that make a randomly weighted selection from a set. But none of them are really straightforward. So I'd be interested to hear how others handled something like this. And if there's maybe a standard known algorithm, this kind of thing must appear in a lot of fields. Mark _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
