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

[Chrilly]

>
> I have this idea that perhaps a good evaluation function could
> replace the play-out portion of the UCT programs.  The evaluation
> function would return a value between 0 and 1 and would be an
> estimate of the odds of winning.
>
I have tried this with an older and much weaker version of Suzie. It played 
positionally better than the Alpha-Beta version, but the rate of very 
strange moves also increased. UCT greates a more unbalanced tree than 
Alpha-Beta and the programm has therefore even more chances to "cheat". For 
the same reason extensions do not work so far in Suzie.

But I tried not with 0-1 but used the full eval. Maybe I should give it a 
second try. But as I work now 45 hours/week on Computer-Tomography (which is 
also quite interesting) and comute each weekend between Germany and Austria 
its difficult to do.

Chrilly