Re: [gnugo-devel] Recent games

[Daniel Bump]

Arend wrote:

> I am still dissatisfied with the influence behaviour in the fuseki,
> especially with regards to contact fights. Hanes, connections in reply to
> peeps (both on iken tobis or keimas), shutting in and breaking through are
> all drastically undervalued. This asks for trouble often.
> A systematic cure for this is probably for post-3.2, but maybe some more
> workarounds for frequent cases (similar to Dan's recent nngs1 tuning) could
> be useful. 

Your patch seems to help a lot but not completely fix the problem.
In nngs:900, the value of Q7 is reduced from 48.5 to 38.3.

Gunnar and I are talking about doing the 3.1.29 release soon, maybe
tomorrow or Wednesday. Anyone who wants to put a patch in 3.1.29
should let us know.

Wolfgang wrote:

> i think we should welcome provocative views. ideas which do not
> conform to the general party line could very well be the right direction.
> of course it is not enough to say: "you are stupid" (for myself i would
> accept that right away) you also have to have something to say.
> anyway handtalk has some very interesting features, it would be good
> to know, how it works and maybe one could profit ?
> so zergling please continue to critisize !

Actually, I didn't find his comments particularly helpful.

Dan