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

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David Doshay wrote:

> We have been encouraged by our success against the GNU Go base code, 
> where we can win about 70% of the games when giving GNU Go a 5 stone 
> handicap, but were worried that our success was primarily the result of 
> our correctly guessing the responses to our move choices because they 
> are all generated by GNU Go, that is to say that we know exactly how 
> our opponent thinks.
> 
> We are now confident that we are indeed much stronger than GNU Go 
> because of our results against Many Faces of Go.

David Fotland wrote:

> When you say you look ahead depth 16, what do you mean?  How do you
> select the move(s) to try?  How many moves do you try at each ply?
> 
> Impressive results.

Indeed, this is excellent. As David Fotland's comment indicates,
a better description of your search strategy would be very
desirable.

Dan