RE: [gnugo-devel] address@hidden: computer-go: 13x13 C GoTournament 2002-03 (12)]

[Arend Bayer]

Nando wrote:

> Gunnar wrote:
>
> > Increasing the level affects a lot of depth parameters. It would be
> > interesting to know which of those pay off best.
>
> I happened to take a look at this portion of code today, and I tried to
> figure a bit which ones. I first noticed that all but one of these values
> increase linearly with the level : at level 15, owl_node_limit gets raised
> to around 7500 (!). I doubt this would pay off, though.

I think it's right to increase node limits exponentially when you are
increasing depth limits linearly. The search tree does grow
exponentially, and if the node limit doesn't grow the same way you'll
get a huge bunch of uncertain owl results.

Arend