Re: computer-go: Passing on a 9x9 board

[heikki@xxxxxx]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:26:31PM -0700, Matthew Corey Brown wrote:
> Some times both of the nurel nets playing against eachother pass after
> 20-35 moves, i have no qualms about one player passing.. but if both do
> early on it has taken upto 4 minutes for gnugo to try and calculate a
> score. Since i'll have to rewrite the fitness function take in the
> new_score feature. I was thinking of not even bothing scoring a game if
> they don't reach a certain number of moves. So any idea what the threshold
> should be?

Since you already talk to GnuGo, you should be able to verify that the
status of all groups (or all stones, if you are lazy) is either dead or
alive, nothing in between. If that is the case, we can safely conclude that
the game is over.

If not, I think you should score the game as a bad thing for both players,
so as to train the nets away from this - a net that gets one clean victory
and one clean loss ought to be better than one that gets two unsettled
games!


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Heikki Levanto  LSD - Levanto Software Development   <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>