Re: [gnugo-devel] using MPI for gnugo.

[Darren Cook]

> code. The only thing that matters in the short term for making GNU Go
> stronger is to catch up with the Monte Carlo development, especially
> make the Monte Carlo code scale better to larger boards. Key ideas to
> look into there are RAVE (rapid action value estimation),
> progressive widening, and improved move ordering.

And then rename it to be YAMP "Yet Another MonteCarlo Program" ;-).

>From the point of view of general computer go improvements, in other
words, someone, anyone, making a really strong computer go program, the
fact that GnuGo is a traditional style go program has kept the MCTS
programs honest.

Unfortunately traditional style programs don't scale so well. If the
talented programmers here could put emotional attachments aside, it
might be best to say GnuGo is now done, and to spend their efforts on
another open source program like Fuego [1].

Darren

[1]: http://fuego.sourceforge.net/

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