[Computer-go] How well does pure monte carlo play?

[Don Dailey]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Eric Baum <ebaum at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> If you don't do rave, or use patterns to predict likely moves, or any of
> that, but just do pure monte carlo,
> parallelized on a cluster,how well would that play Go? Anyone know?
>

If you are talking about a pure light playout without patterns but still
using a very basic MC tree implementation,   it will play very poorly
compared to the best stuff we have.   But it would still be better than
what we had before MCTS.    It might reach the 1D level assuming a good
parallel cluster implementation.

Don







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