[Computer-go] scores histogram

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi,

This is probably very close to useless, but it might be fun in a geeky
kind of way :-) It might not be novel, either.

I ran some playout games without komi (with simple policies: capture
atari, escape atari, simple 3x3 patterns) and plotted the distribution
of scores. I thought that the top of the bell curve would be placed at
the ideal komi - well, close to it, as the playouts aren't very smart.
The engine I used is Orego 7.10 and its scoring functionality.

For 9x9 and ten million games, the top seems to be around 7.

For 19x19 I only ran one million games and the top is difficult to
locate precisely, it's quite flat between 3 and 21. The middle of this
interval is around 11, which feels a bit high. I plan to let it run a
while longer.

regards,
Vlad