Re: computer-go: Neural Nets: suggesting and evaluating

[Markus Enzenberger <compgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 07 August 2003 05:29, Darren Cook wrote:
> I'd be really interested to see the results of such a
> program. I believe gnugo can be set to output tactical
> search results from an input position, so making the
> training data may not actually be that hard.

NeuroGo uses tactical search result as an input, although it 
reads only ladders (which 3 liberties allowed at the target 
block until depth 2) and this is indeed an important input 
feature.

As Nici pointed out, it slows down processing the position, 
but reduces the number of games necessary for training.
Unforunately I cannot precalculate the input, since I found 
learning from self-played games by far superior to learning 
from master games.

- Markus