[computer-go] transposition

[Peter Drake]

On May 11, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Don Dailey wrote:

> Going along with this, the numbers won't add up (although I don't know
> if that is important.)   In other words, if you do 10,000  
> simulations at
> the root, all grandchildren will add up to more (due to  
> transpositions.)
> If you propogate this up the tree you might come up with many more  
> than
> 10,000 simulations at the root.

As per the previous thread, it appears that one should not (even when  
using a direct tree) assume that
the number of runs through the parent is the same as the sum of the  
runs through the children.

Your other comments match my experience.

Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/