On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:38 +0200, Magnus Persson wrote: > Here is my take on joseki and fuseki in computer programs. > > My older program Viking, had a quite nice patternmatching feature > which matched the entire board or smaller parts of it towards a > database of 50k games or so. It makes it play nice but as far as I > could tell it had no impact on the strength of the program. > > With 9x9 I have used many systems learned or handmade, but it all > boils down to that as been said earlier. It only works for a program > that does not change, since it overfits its own strengths and > weaknesses.
Yes, even in chess it seems to be best if you match the book to the program. In go it is perhaps not good to even try with a rapidly changing program. - Don _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
