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.
