[computer-go] ego110_allfirst on CGOS

[Don Dailey]

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Did you look at the games?

I looked at game 133580.sgf and your program was clearly lost playing
the black pieces,  however the game record says that your opponent
resigned in a dead won position.

In fact, there were not moves left to play other than filling eyes.


- - Don



Urban Hafner wrote:
> Hej all,
> 
> I'm wondering if anybody knows how ego110_allfirst on CGOS works. The
> name seems to suggest that it does random playouts and uses the
> all-moves-as-first heuristic. Is this correct? And if so, how many
> playouts does it do per move?
> 
> I'm asking because I started developing my own bot. Right now the only
> thing it does is play legal moves that aren't eyes of the bots color
> (according to libegos definition, as that's what the bot is/will be
> based on). The strange thing is that in the 9 games against
> ego110_allfirst it was able to win 5 [1]. This seems really strange to
> me. I would have guessed that even a small number of playouts would be
> enough to beat a random bot like this consistently.
> 
> Urban
> 
> [1] http://cgos.boardspace.net/9x9/cross/ErlyGo-0.0.1.html
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