[computer-go] MC approach

[Don Dailey]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 14:08 -0600, Matt Gokey wrote:
> Don, do you have any theories or information about why this is the
> case?

Not really.  In truth the only thing that matters is to increase your
winning percentage - not your score.   There seems to be no point in
tampering with this. 

- Don



> I would think either way the algorithm should always prefer higher
> average win probabilities, but faced with alternatives where the win
> probabilities are same or nearly the same but the average winning
> margins are higher for one alternative, wouldn't it be better to take
> the path with the better margin? I mean it may in fact be wrong about
> the win/loss classifications so choosing the better scores would seem
> to
> make sense within reason as long as it's not greedy.
> 
>