Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 14:42:08 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 17:35:57, Uri Blass wrote: >Even if I suppose that we know to evaluate only checkmate in chess more time can >help because knowing the final result of the game one ply earlier can help in >part of the cases to find the right move. Go has no checkmate. The game is over when both players agree it is over. >I know nothing about go but more time should always help to computers and the >only question is how much. > >I can understand that the benefit is clearly less than chess and I guess that >evaluating only checkmate in chess may do the benefit from doubling the speed >smaller but there still is going to be a benefit that can be proved. It doesn't. Looking deeper will only help if your evaluation is reasonable enough. (pathology in game trees). In Go it often isn't. -- GCP
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