Hi Petr, Thanks for the suggestions, will try running it in 15x15 going forward :)
8 januari 2015, Petr Baudis <pa...@ucw.cz> skrev: > Hi! > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:16:55AM +0000, Andreas Persson wrote: > > I am running some test builds against GNU Go, to save time I have decided > > to play them on a 13x13 board. Do you guys also test on smaller board sizes > > to save time, or are these test worthless for 19x19? > > > The behavior and optimal parameter setting (including enabled, > disabled features) is very different specifically on 9x9 vs. 19x19, > at least that's my experience with Pachi. > > Between that, it's obviously some spectrum. I think 15x15 is a better > compromise than 13x13 and use that board size for benchmarks, but it's > not an opinion that's terribly well scientifically grounded. (I think I > did some comparisons long ago, but I forgot the details. Also, some > professionals advocated 15x15 and in my playing experience it's much > closer to 19x19 strategically but the games are only a little slower > than on 13x13.) > > Anyhow, make sure you do not make your games too blitz even on > a smaller board; very fast settings favor parameters that give a good > behavior on initial choice of moves, longer time settings favor > parameters that give a good asymptotic behavior and again there's > a difference (often I find that ad hoc heuristics I implement help > the blitz case but do not help or hamper the longer time settings). > There is no good solution, but I do one-off tests with considerably > longer time settings than usual time by time. > > -- > Petr Baudis > If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely > you'll do important work. -- R. Hamming > http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html >
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