[computer-go] scalability studies with UCT

[alain Baeckeroot]

Le jeudi 22 février 2007 17:00, Don Dailey a écrit :
> It appears that at 9x9 Lazarus needs more play-outs to equalize with
> gnugo.  However, it also appears that at higher levels the superiority
> is even greater than in the 7x7 games.  This is non-intuitive and
> probably not really the case - I assume this is due to sampling error
> since fewer games have been played on this boardsize.  We also need to
> see the highest level lose a few games as this surely distorts the
> table significantly (you cannot get an accurate ELO rating if you don't
> win AND lose some games.)
> 
> I may try 11x11 or 13x13 boards at a later time - focusing on lower
> levels since the longer levels are very time consuming.  I will post
> an update to this in a few days once I've gathered substantially more
> data.
> 
Thanks for sharing your experiments.
btw, GNU Go have databases for joseki and fuseki on 9X9 and 13x13.
Maybe running with --nojosekidb --nofusekidb otpions would be better for
scale comparison.

Alain