Re: [Bug-gnubg] Predefined move filters

[Joseph Heled]

Gary Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:11:30PM -0200, Albert Silver wrote:
>
> > I'll do some testing of this, but it's not always easy to see the
> > difference. One detail: It's true that the 1-ply is the worst (IMHO) ply
> > depth, however, in my experience, the 3-ply is definitely stronger than
> > the 2-ply. This has been confirmed by numerous rollouts, as well as
> > errors pointed out by Snowie.
>
>
> I agree.  In fact, I think 1-ply comes out worst only when the judge
> is an even-ply evaluation; head-to-head, 1-ply beats 0-ply by a tiny
> margin.

I disagree. 0ply beats or equals 1ply when the judge is 0ply rollouts, 
as my benchmark shows for both race and crashed positions.

And trying to specifically improve the 1ply results in degrading the 
0ply. Again that might reflect the specific methods I use - as yet I 
have no idea what can be changed to make 1ply better without degrading 0ply.

-Joseph

> The ply oscillation problem is particularly annoying.  It's
> reminiscent of all those court cases where decisions get appealed from
> court to court, being reversed at each step along the way, and the
> final outcome is really a matter of which side was lucky enough to be
> "in phase" when the ultimate court is reached, rather than whatever
> merits one might find to consider.  (Of course, in the U.S.A., they
> pick presidents that way.)
>
> Cheers,
> Gary.