Don Dailey wrote:
Are you speculating that if enough play-outs are done, the idea might prove to be superior? I never actually considered that. So perhaps with 5000 playouts using the win/loss score wins, but at 50,000 using the margin might be better? This is easy to test with simple MC go programs. If I get a chance I will test it for you (since you do not have a program of your own) and report the results. I'm not holding my breath however ...
Indeed, that was my /guess/. And one aimed at rationalizing why this particular idea might somehow work. It might well be that something else is needed to utilize the score difference after a play-out, or it might be that it really is worthless... Without a much deeper understanding (in a mathematical sense, not a player-skill sense*) of go, I don't see how we can find out which ideas really can't work.
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