[computer-go] average length of 9x9 MC playout

[Nick Apperson]

heavy playouts should yeild a lower number of moves because moves are
slightly more efficient bringing the end of the game sooner.  I'm actually
surprised it isn't a larger difference.

On 3/18/07, Don Dailey <drd at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 22:33 -0400, John Tromp wrote:
> > I've seen the number 107.3... reported earlier
> > for the average length, without the 2 final passes.
> > Is this allowing multi stone suicides or not?
> > And what's the outcome in the other case?
> > Thanks!
>
> This does not allow multi-stone suicide.   I don't
> know the number in the other case.
>
> I just checked Lazarus again and it's getting
> about 104.63 moves per random game from the
> opening.    There are some minor implementation
> differences such as how suicide is handled,
> the exact eye rule used, etc.
>
> The heavy play-out version of Lazarus gets
> almost the same number, but it's consistently
> about 1/10 of move lower for some reason.
>
> Are you trying to make a Monte Carlo program?
>
> - Don
>
>
>
> > regards,
> > -John
> > _______________________________________________
> > computer-go mailing list
> > computer-go at computer-go.org
> > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
>
> _______________________________________________
> computer-go mailing list
> computer-go at computer-go.org
> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/attachments/20070318/058f5fd9/attachment.htm