You know my program better than I do :) I had forgotten. Looking at my code: The phase is: Fuseki if there are any unfinished joseki Endgame if it is past move 120 on a 19x19 board and all groups are stable Middle game otherwise. During fuseki the random value for varying play is doubled and the rules for squirming when behind and filling dame are disabled. During the endgame the bound for being behind is tightened. Otherwise the phase information is not used. I probably did use it more in the past. David At 06:28 AM 5/14/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Many Faces does not try to determine the stage of the game. David, I seem to remember reading old messages in this list in which you mentioned that ManyFaces _did_ keep track of the stage of the game. If ManyFaces used to keep track of "stage of the game", I'm curious why you/it stopped doing so. Was it adding complexity without improving results? Ben Shoemaker. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
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