RE: [gnugo-devel] More on minimum values

[Arend Bayer]

Nando wrote:

> Actually, I have a couple other questions. Nobody replied to my post in
> Evan's previous thread, so I'll repeat the questions here : there's
> already a mechanism to differentiate minimum values. Why are we
> insisting on adding another one ? If the proposed one is better, why
> keep the old one then ? What about simply changing the current one so
> that it includes J patterns too ?

It's not only about J patterns but also about pattern with fixed values.
The minimum move value logic will produce a value slightly higher than
than the minimum move value, but this is then set back by the maximum
move value.
(Yes I know this is ugly.)

This concerns all patterns marked with "F" as fuseki patterns (most
patterns in fuseki.db).

But yes, we should not have two such mechanisms. Evan's experiment
showed however that the problem is an important one.

Arend