mercy rule in libego:
http://github.com/lukaszlew/libego/blob/77b4dd4e035e4b44c17204557c9930a52e10e0c0/ego/playout.h
line 55.
Regards,
Łukasz Lew
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:00, Seth Pellegrino wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've managed to track the idea of a mercy rule in monte-carlo playouts back
>
Has anyone done a good analysis on the value of the mercy rule? It is
a major or minor speedup? And how does it affect the quality of the
search? Is it more useful with bigger board sizes?
It seems like I remember seeing that many believed it to be a very minor
improvement if any, but I'm
Bruno Bouzy gives it credit for a 1% strength improvement in the tutorial:
"Old-fashioned Computer Go vs Monte-Carlo Go"
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~bouzy/publications/CIG07-tutorial-1avril2007.pdf
(It's a pretty good read in general, btw.)
The Mercy rule interacts with ownership maps and
Hi Martin, Dave and others,
I have never posted to this list before (so, hi everyone! :-), but
your discussion on approximate CGT caught my eye.
Dave. you mentioned that you are interested in trying to mix UCT and
CGT:
Dave Devos wrote on 19 Feb 2009, 19:33 GMT:
Ok, I'll look into your tem
