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

[Jonas Kahn]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:03:02PM -0700, Christoph Birk wrote:
> 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.

I guess Petr meant: does Mogo stop what it calls principal variation
when all nodes following the move have been visited less than say 100 or
1000 times, or does it follow the ``best'' moves until the very leaves
of the UCT tree ?

Jonas