The intelligible reason is that focussing on the win or loss means that the bot is focussing on what actually matters: winning and not losing. If the bot focuses on the margin of victory the play can be skewed to aim for big wins that may not happen while paying insufficient attention to small losses.
Simon Lucas -----Original Message----- From: Computer-go [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Charles Leedham-green Sent: 08 December 2016 23:23 To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules I have been told that bots that are based on MC play better when they only record the result of each roll out (W or L) rather than the margin of victory. To me this is counter-intuitive. Does anyone have an intelligible reason why it should be so? Charles > On 8 Dec 2016, at 22:56, Erik van der Werf <erikvanderw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:58 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Playing under such conditions might be a challenge for the bots > > Why? Do you think the humans will collude? ;-) > > Erik. > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
