Re: [computer-go] Parallel lookahead with GNU Go

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

>   Playing white against GNU Go 3.2 with no handicap, we used GNU Go
>   3.2 to generate possible moves. We selected 4 lookahead paths and ran
>   them out 8 moves. We used a weighted linear combination of GNU Go's
>   estimate of the value of the original moves and GNU Go's estimate of the
>   overall influence in the final positions to select one move from the 4. 
>   We
>   beat GNU Go almost all of the time, usually by a substantial margin. The
>   small number of times we lost, the margin was small.

That  sounds impressive,  but you  did not  report anything  about the
number of  games played.  It's easy  to be extremely  mislead by small
statistical samples.   

Can you give more stats?

Thanks,

-Don

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