Re: current development

[Philippe Michel]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 09:51:20AM +1300, Joseph Heled wrote:

> What are "roller levels"?

Short truncated rollouts used instead of higher plies evaluations. In 
term of accuracy / CPU time, they are more efficient than more plies.

Tesauro describes their application to backgammon evaluations in this 
article (from 1997, but impractical on consumer-grade computers until 
many years later...) : 
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1302-on-line-policy-improvement-using-monte-carlo-search.pdf
 
> And "5 points"? are those Elo points? something else?

Yes, 5 Elo points.