[computer-go] The physics of Go playing strength.

[Darren Cook]

>   http://greencheeks.homelinux.org:8015/~drd/public/study.jpg
> ...
> I'm actually testing 2 programs - both of them UCT style go
> programs, but one of those programs does uniformly random
> play-outs and the other much stronger one is similar to
> Mogo, as documented in one of their papers.

Hi Don,
Can you describe the implementation of heavy and lite in more detail;
especially lite?

I've been trying the libego program "out of the box", and am up to
200,000 UCT playouts, but still gnugo 3.6 on level 6 is winning 10 out
of 10. According to your chart, lite with 128K playouts should be about
50 ELO points higher than gnugo 3.7 (on level 10 I assume?). (256K
playouts should be 130 points higher.)

I'm wondering if there is a standard set of UCT enhancements that
everyone is doing?

TIA,

Darren