[Computer-go] Fwd: News on Tromp-Cook ?

[Erik van der Werf]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Olivier Teytaud <olivier.teytaud at lri.fr> wrote:
> mogo's MC was implemented in many
> strong programs, and influenced the MC of all other
> strong programs. I think there's no exception to this. I was personally of
> little influence on that, but I was here for clearly seeing that
> this is a big contribution.

The playout policy I used in the 2007 version of Steenvreter was
developed independently of the Mogo policy. However, some time after
the olympiad I also implemented Mogo's version for comparison. IIRC
the policy with Yizao's patterns was of comparable quality at equal
numbers of simulations but a bit faster so therefore over-all better.

I think Yizao's policy is the primary reason why Mogo got strong so
fast in 2006.

Erik