Re: computer-go: Quiescence (was Re: Temporal Difference Learning)

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is a critical group?  Groups in atari is not a good criteria.  Tactically
threatened groups is more general, but it really should be tactically 
threatened
groups that can live if they escape.

Many Faces is almost all quiescence search.  The non-Q sequences are all
taken from the joseki library or the pattern database.  Each terminal position
is followed by a Q search.

David

At 12:18 AM 7/17/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> > > not a full search, only the quiescence search, which is much
> > > cheaper.
> >
> > This raises another question:  is there a good cheap criterion for
> > quiescence in Go?
>
> No groups in atari?
>
> No groups critical?
>
> As in chess, you'll probably need to experiment how much
> you want to do in qsearch and how much you want to do
> in the normal search.
>
> --
> GCP