Re: [gnugo-devel] score.c

[Arend Bayer]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> >                 The only advantage the Bouzy algorithm has over an
> > influence function based one is speed but in practice it tends to be
> > insignificant compared to other computations, e.g. the owl reading.
> 
> The speed advantage could be significant in a different engine
> model. I believe that (unlike current GNU Go) a very strong
> engine would have to score board positions deeper than the top
> ply and in this case speed would be important.

But wouldn't the very strong engine have to do owl reading deeper
than the top ply, too?

I think for comparative purposes (i.e. chosing between
different moves/variatons), the inaccuracies of Bouzy's algorithm will
come to light even more clearly. There is a reason we have been doing a
couple of years of constant influence/territory tuning.

Anyway, I won't remove score.c for now.

Arend