Hi Aja,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Aja <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
>> Without a book Steenvreter usually still plays decent opening moves
>> because it is pretty good at predicting pro moves (predictions are
>> used to set priors in the tree). However, with longer thinking times
>> there is sometimes a tendency for its style to become more cosmic (not
>> sure if that is good or bad).
>
>  On 9x9 or 19x19 do you mean?

I used to have a different predictor for small boards, but now I just
use the one trained on 19x19;  it also works quite well on 9x9.
Actually I was quite surprised, some years ago, when I found that
something trained on 19x19 made the 9x9 program stronger...

Of course for 9x9 the move predictor alone is not good enough. Sadly,
to win tournaments it seems having a good book is now a must.

Erik
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