[computer-go] Bot ratings and strength

[Christoph Birk]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Don Dailey wrote:
> I just posted "GenericMC_10000 on CGOS.    This is a test to see what a
> very generic monte/carlo player should be able to achieve doing 10000
> simulations - less than a second per move.
>
> Others should be able to duplicate this bot exactly from my description
> and it would be nice if someone would try just as a check.

I posted very similar bots:

'myCtest-2' runs 10,000 simulations (like GenericMC_10000, ELO=1143) and
settled at ELO=1126, very close to Don's program.

'myCtest-5' is identical except it runs 50,000 sims and scores 1373.

'myCtest-25' starts with 250,000 simulations (reduces this number 
during the game due to time problems) and scores 1460.

At 10000 simulations my program appears to score very close to
Don's and the 50k/250k versions indicate an upper limit of about 1500
for simple simulations; duplicating Don's tests.
I assume GenericMC_200K scored so poorly because of time problems?

Christoph

ps. ignore 'myCtest' and 'myCtest-1b' as they were (failed) experiments