Re: [gnugo-devel] endgame tuning

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Arend wrote:
> Do you have a suggestion how such patterns would look like? I fear that
> with the current framework of pattern, we would just need too many of
> them to make this maintainable.
> 
> I see Nonterritory46 is an example of doing this by hand. But of course
> there are many similar situations...

Something like that, yes.

> You may be right, but I think I would still like to try it out. A bit
> more careful would be to do this only for two blocks directly neighboring
> an influence source. (I.e. pretty much a hardcoded pattern like

The latter sounds more workable. Please try it out.

> Yes. The best might be to just try out both of them and remove the one
> where the territorial effect is smaller. This would mean running
> value_territory() some hundreds of times, but I would hope this is not
> a performance issue.

If it works (performance-wise) it would be fine. Otherwise it's maybe
possible to use some cruder heuristic for the choice. Maybe something
similar to the (old) dragon escape estimation.

/Gunnar