[computer-go] Experiments with UCT

[Darren Cook]

> in yose, it seems like the following set of steps
> is mandatory to maintain a lead or to make up a
> small difference in lead:
> 
> i)   calculate the longest sequence of sente moves
>      that improve your score, summing them along
>      the way
> ii)  calculate the largest gote move that improves
>      your score
> iii) do i) and ii) from your opponent's point of
>      view.

One issue that springs to mind is ko: sente moves are also ko threats,
so shouldn't always all be played before playing a gote move.

> i guess the short question is whether or not there
> is a good concept of sente and gote in anyone's
> code once yose is reached?  

I personally think this is too hard to do accurately. Better to just try
all combinations of reasonable moves. (Or when "all" takes too long,
then a reasonable sample, as in monte-carlo go.)

Darren