[computer-go] Please have your bot resign, for your own good

[dhillismail at netscape.net]

After 2000 playouts, AntIgo checks the estimated score. If it's way ahead, it stops thinking and just plays the best move it has so far. This way it plays very quickly when the game is won and the opponent does not resign. (I don't apply this rule in the beginning to avoid confusion in handicap games.)
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AntIgo gambles that thinking a long time on early moves can?buy it a won position. Sometimes the gamble pays off, sometimes not. Another benefit is that games against random/near-random bots are mercifully swift.

- Dave Hillis


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