[computer-go] MC Go Effectiveness

[Christoph Birk]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Matt Gokey wrote:

> Magnus Persson wrote:
>> Quoting Matt Gokey <mgokey at charter.net>:
>> is important to get a won position as early as possible. The longer it 
>> thinks the better it plays. In the opening it always critical to find the 
>> best move - but later on games are often either won or lost so saving time 
>> for those
>> positions are not so important.
> I agree with this last statement for the early end-game / end-game
> phase.  For the pre-middle to middle I'm not sure.  This is the
> critical part of the game where you need to solidify the winning
> positions.  As long as reasonable opening moves that provide robust
> options are made and it can play into the middle game stronger than the
> opponent, winning positions should result.

But that phase starts very ealy on 9x9 ... as soon as you have
stones "touching".

Christoph