Actually I see that I didn’t test on 19x19 for a couple of weeks, so the
improved strength can be from any of a dozen changes I made and only tested
on 9x9.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fotland
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:32 AM
> To: 'computer-go'
> Subject: RE: [computer-go] 9x9 to 19x19 scaling strangeness
> 
> Can you put crazystone back on 19x19 so I can see if it is just a fluke
> against fuego?
> 
> I added locality to the light playouts - play near last or second to
> last
> move, and some code to handle long ladders in playouts.  I don’t think
> this
> is anything unusual.
> 
> Both should help 19x19, but I don’t know why 9x9 would be damaged.
> 
> I also changed code around playing self atari in seki.  Perhaps there
> is
> bug, since seki is more important in 9x9.
> 
> The biggest problem that I have with monte carlo is the amount of
> testing.
> I made four or five changes and I'm testing them together now.  To see
> the
> effect of each change independently would take a couple of weeks of
> testing,
> since it takes several days on 19x19 to get an accurate rating.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rémi Coulom
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:20 AM
> > To: computer-go
> > Subject: Re: [computer-go] 9x9 to 19x19 scaling strangeness
> >
> > David Fotland wrote:
> > > I made a change over the weekend, which looks like it makes 9x9 150
> > ELO
> > > weaker and 19x19 over 200 ELO stronger.
> > >
> > > Very strange.
> > >
> > > David
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