endgame (Was [computer-go] Re: Should 9x9 komi be 8.0 ?])

[Christoph Birk]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
>> MoGo displays the depth of the principle variation in the stderr stream.
>
> I have been wondering, does that include _any_ nodes, or only these
> above certain number of playouts?  What is the playout threshold?

The 'principal variation' is usually the one that the program would
play against itself; at each level the one move with the highest
score with might (depending on the program) just be the one with
the most playouts.

Christoph