Re: [gnugo-devel] GNU Go Development Idea

[David G Doshay]

On 1, Mar 2005, at 9:40 AM, Bowdridge, Steven James wrote:

> It basically ponders the top 10 expected
> responses, and checks back for user input between pondering each move. 
>  If the opponent
> has made one of the moves that has been pondered, GNU Go doesn't need 
> to consider a
> response, and instantly responds.  The idea is to save some time,

I have not checked the top 10, as you propose, but I have checked the 
single top expected response when our SlugGo (a wrapper over GNU Go) 
plays Many Faces of Go. In the admittedly very small sample of one 
game, GNU Go's top response to SlugGo's chosen move was first chosen by 
Many Faces on move 50, i.e. 49 misses before a hit. It seemed so seldom 
that I did not keep checking after that. But I do expect more hits out 
of the top 10.

In the case of Many Faces, I doubt that GNU Go could ponder the replies 
to the 10 possible responses in less time than Many Faces takes to 
play. But if you have 10 cpus at hand to do that pondering in parallel 
(one time step rather than 10) you might save some time.

Cheers,
David