[Computer-go] progressive strategies

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi!

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Francois van Niekerk wrote:
> I managed to get a large strength increase by doing progressive
> widening/unpruning. In the order of 300 ELO on 9x9 against GnuGo. I
> then retrained the features for 19x19, which gave me a hit on 9x9, but
> should do much better on 19x19.

  Interesting! Are you using pure UCT or RAVE?

  I can understand many interesting things to give a boost to plain UCT,
but improving RAVE tree search has been always very difficult for me,
since it is already so powerful.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Computer science education cannot make an expert programmer any more
than studying brushes and pigment can make an expert painter. --esr