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Do things like "best opening move", "worst handicap placement" or similar make sense if you assume perfect play ? I would think not, because when you have perf
by elcomet 7y ago
Do things like "best opening move", "worst handicap placement" or similar make sense if you assume perfect play ?
I would think not, because when you have perfect play, you either win, lose or draw. So you just have "winning opening moves", "losing opening moves", and "draw opening moves". You cannot really rank them.
Maybe the ranking would be the number of different games that lead you to a win, in a monte-carlo tree search fashion. Which could then be useful if you can't play perfectly (highest probability of winning).
- afthonos 7y agoGo has points. An opening move is better than another if, given perfect play thereafter, you end up with more points.
- elcomet 7y agoBut are those points counted in tournaments, or are they just counted to know who won the game ? So, if you have a very clear path of how to win by 1 point, or a risky way to win by 10 points, does it make sense to try the risky path ?
- afthonos 7y agoThey are not officially counted, but they are often used as an informal indication of strength difference among players.