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

[Don Dailey]

dhillismail at netscape.net wrote:
> 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.)
>  
> 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.
It's clearly a good gamble to front load the time fairly
significantly.     It's difficult to determine exactly how much
though.     Many games are won or lost after just a few moves.   
However games against the strong bots tend to stay relatively even for
many moves.   

- Don


> - Dave Hillis
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