Re: Another Domain

[Matt Gokey <mgokey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joan wrote:

>> A few weeks ago I posted a message introducing a roughly defined idea,
>> the gist of which was to try to sample the search space of go using
>> "atomic moves" made up of multiple single stone moves and "searching"
>> using these moves.  The main goal being to find the hot spots on the
>> board.  I would have liked to have gotten more feedback from everyone

>I also think this approach - searching on "chunks" of moves or small
>sequences more or less forced as people seems to do- will pay off.
>This would layer the search in 2 steps, unless you have a very good
>library of "small sequences" (aka josekis) to rely on.

>I've been thinking about it for the last years, but it's no trivial :-)

I know its not trivial and I can see some things that may be
troublesome, but I'd like to try it.  Do you have any ideas for an
alternate domain that may make research a little easier to start with?

>IMO it will aply mostly to live &dead, and tactics in general, leaving
>the answer about if cuting was useful for the eval after.

What do you mean by this?

Matt