Re: [gnugo-devel] Re: [computer-go] SlugGo v.s. Many Faces

[wagjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

On 26 Aug 2004, at 7:31, Darren Cook wrote:

> 
> I.e. "stupid, narrow but deep" beats "sophisticated but shallow".
> 
> The times it fails are when a non-obvious tesuji (e.g. a throw-in or
> making 
> an empty triangle) is a considerably better move because it lives/kills a
> group.

I am afraid, that there are many situation where the move which 
seems to be the second best at first sight is much better then the 
first. (Or the first leeds to a trouble, which is the same... :)) And 
when this happend at 3rd ply, then searching the wrong line in 16 
deep is worthless. It is not supprising that it could be stronger by 3-
5 kyu against himselt, but it is interesting for me that it is 
significantly stronger against Many Faces. I guess that 16 ply 'very 
narrow' search can not help more then 1 kyu against human.

But your result are interested anyway, because no one knows the 
result.

May I ask the averages branching factor at the 1st ply ? If it is 
significantly less then 72, then do other processors nothing ?

Best regrads
Janos Wagner
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