Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: race-database and possible bot weakness

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:16:26AM +0200, Robert-Jan Veldhuizen wrote
> At 21:32 10/1/2002 -0300, Albert wrote:
> 
> [from a discussion with Neil:]
> 
> >NON-contact races where bots are generally very
> >weak.
> 
> Yes. I really think Neil was thinking SNOWIE 3.2 here, and maybe Jellyfish. 
> GNUBG isn't weak and definitely not very weak in these positions, in fact 
> I'd say it's very strong in these positions, since GNUBG has a good RACE 
> neural net which Snowie apparently lacks.
> 
> I think Neil hasn't tried GNUBG enough to tell and perhaps just assumed 
> GNUBG would be similar to Snowie, but it's not. I've never seen GNUBG make 
> the silly racing plays Snowie sometimes makes.
> 
> Of course GNUBG's RACE NN isn't perfect, so it might still be worth trying 
> to improve something here, but I really hope most of the efforts are spent 
> trying to improve other sorts of position evaluations. 

I can't contribute to the improvement of the NN, so I'll try to improve
the race by making a larger one-sided database :-)

I think it'll improve the race play, but I don't how much. It may also
improve the cubeful evaluations for races.

Jørn

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