From: Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T09:47:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11)

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:04:53 +0900
Brian Schr�der <ruby@brian-schroeder.de> wrote:

| If I understand your code correctly, you choose with highest
| probability the worst move ;). You should either use moves.pop or sort
| in reverse order.
| 
| Note that I used exactly the opposite evaluation function: -1000 for
| loss and 100 for win, because it is impossible to win against a decent
| player and I wanted to avoid losses and tend to play draws. Though I
| don't know if this really makes a difference compared with -1 0 1 or
| other numbers. I hope my choice does not lead to weird psychoanalysis
| of me ;)
| 
| Best Regards,
| 
| Brian
| 
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| Brian Schr�der
| http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
| 

Thanks for your help! However, after I changed the code to use
moves.pop, nothing changed. I.e. the learning AI player was as bad as
was before.

Thanks for helping,
Thomas

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