[computer-go] The dominance of search (Suzie v. GnuGo)

[Erik van der Werf]

On 4/6/07, Don Dailey <drd at mit.edu> wrote:
> However, there is nothing wrong with using alpha beta
> search with an evauation function that is not deterministic.

I agree that some limited amount of non-determinism isn't necessarily
a bad thing, and in some cases it actually helps (e.g., when mobility
is important, or to avoid the exploitation of repeatable blunders).
However, do you really believe that this still holds if the variance
causes a spread over the maximum range of possible values of the
underlying ground-truths?

Erik