[computer-go] How to design the stronger playout policy?

[Mark Boon]

On 8-jan-08, at 17:04, Don Dailey wrote:

> And yes, it slows down the play-outs.   Still, the play-outs seem to
> require a good bit of randomness - certainly they cannot be
> deterministic and it seems difficult to find the general principles  
> that
> are important to the play-out policy.

I was thinking about this and wanted to make sure I understand what  
you mean by 'cannot be deterministic'.

For example a stone gets put into atari and it finds an escaping  
move. With plain playouts the stone gets captured anyway roughly 50%  
of the time. With heavy playouts it gives a weighting so that the  
chance of escaping becomes larger? Or does it always play the  
escaping move and just the rest of the playout is random?

Mark

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