Re: [Bug-gnubg] Question about the Hint Window Evals

[Øystein O Johansen]

> Firstly my apologies for remaining anonymous.
> My name is Pablo Sangster
> Thanks you for your quick response.

Hi, Pablo! Nice to meet you!

>> You can of course press the "..." button and turn off the pruning
>> neural nets for the evaluations done with the "Eval" button. If I
>> coded the cache key calculation correctly to take the prune net
>> setting into account, the evaluation will be redone without use of
>> the pruning nets.
>
> Yes thank you for this tip. It didn't occur to me.

This was the final argument for setting pruning nets default on.

> Yes I fully understand how the pruning neural nets work.

Good!

> However my speciality is backgames and I am finding that there
> are enough differences between the prune and full nets to matter.

Yes, you're right. In some backgame positions the pruning neural nets
will possibly do some bad pruning. However it is not sure the normal
nets will do the right move either. ;-)

If there is a position type where I believe that turning the pruning
nets off can give some improvments it must be in backgames.

> BTW I think GNU could do with some more training in developing
> backgames...

I've started to look at Josephs training code and tools and I do
some small test with differnt nets. Howevere I belive it's really
hard to improve the current nets much more as they are without
splitting further or introducing other inputs. (However I don't
believe introducing other inputs is the best strategy either.)

A long long long time a go (in this galaxy), Joseph tried to make
a net specially for backgames and prime position. However, this net
wasn't a success and Joseph abandoned the net. This must have been
at least 5 years ago. It must have been in the sourceforge period
of the project.

What 'part' of the backgame do you find flaws? In developing a
backgame? I really find the positions where gnubg is developing a
backgame really strong. I see it make most mistakes after it hits.
It dosn't understand how contain the checker properly. Specially
if it's hitting late.

-Øystein


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