Re: [computer-go] Optimal explore rates for plain UCT

2008-03-14 Thread Tim Foden
Petr Baudis wrote: I got kind of lost in the thread and lost track about which bots should I actually compare myself to. ;-) So I have created this page: http://senseis.xmp.net/?CGOSBasicUCTBots Good idea. and summed up what I could find in the thread about the various bots. Pleas

Re: [computer-go] Optimal explore rates for plain UCT

2008-03-13 Thread Tim Foden
Don Dailey wrote: Tim Foden wrote: Don Dailey wrote: I suggest exactly 25,000 play-outs that we should standardize on.50,000 will tax my spare computer which I like to use for modest CGOS tests. If it is agreed, I will start a 25k test.My prediction is that this will finish

Re: [computer-go] Optimal explore rates for plain UCT

2008-03-12 Thread Tim Foden
Don Dailey wrote: I suggest exactly 25,000 play-outs that we should standardize on.50,000 will tax my spare computer which I like to use for modest CGOS tests. If it is agreed, I will start a 25k test.My prediction is that this will finish around 1600 ELO on CGOS. OK, I added F

Re: [computer-go] Re: myCtest-10k-AMAF-x on CGOS

2008-02-19 Thread Tim Foden
Hi Christoph, Thanks for replying. Christoph Birk wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:29 AM, Tim Foden wrote: In your "pure MC program", do you use UCB1 to choose the next move to search at the root? If not, what algorithm are you using? I'm currently using UCB1 for my test in Fluke

[computer-go] Re: myCtest-10k-AMAF-x on CGOS

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Foden
Hi Christoph, I'm currently trying to pretty much replicate this test with my own bot Fluke. It's more of a confidence test than anything else. I'd like to be sure that I've got AMAF implemented correctly (if there is any such thing :) ). myCtest-10k seems to gain about 420 elo from adding AMA