2009/3/30 Erez <yalo...@hotmail.com>: > I wanted to know what is the true addition of the lookahead to GNU so as a > true lamer I set out a money game session between GNU playing expert and GNU > playing Supremo. I thought to let them play until 64 points and see Supremo > mop the floor with expert. > I was never able to get to 64 because the software crashed somewhere in the > middle (happened again on another computer), but still I was very surprised > to find out that Supremo got only about 20% more points than Expert. > So how much stronger really is Supremo than Expert? >
Not much I expect. The strength of the higher plies are mostly seen in specific situations where the look-ahead is important. It is more a question of reliability than overall strength. 64 points certainly won't be enough to determine the difference with any confidence. The best approach is probably to let 0ply play 0ply for a long money session. Have supremo analyse the games for both players, and then rollout any disagreements. Then you'll have error rates to compare for the two playing strengths. Christian. > Erez > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > Bug-gnubg@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg > > _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
