About Ray

Ray is a Go (Weiqi, Baduk) game engine based on Monte-Carlo tree search without Deep Learning.

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Installation

1. 'cd' to the directory which includes 'Makefile'
2. Type 'make' to compile
3. Place parameter files to sim_params and uct_params directories (You can download parameter files from here)

How to run

When using a GUI that supports GTP (Go Text Protocol), the following command can be used Ray as a engine.

./ray

Ray's command line options are as follows,

Game settings

Option	Description	Value	Example of value	Default value	Note
--size	Size of go board	Integer more then 1 and less than or equal to PURE_BOARD_SIZE	9	PURE_BOARD_SIZE ( = 19 )	PURE_BOARD_SIZE is defined in include/board/Constant.hpp
--komi	Komi value	Real number	6.5	KOMI ( = 6.5 )	KOMI is defined in include/board/Constant.hpp
--superko	Positional super ko	-	-	-	Supporting positional super ko only
--handicap	The number of handicap stones	Integer more than 1	2	0	This option is for debugging.
--cgos	CGOS player mode	-	-	-	Activating capturing all dead stones mode

annotation

The --playout option, the --const-time option, and the --time option are effective when specified last, respectively.

Time management and search settings

Option	Description	Value	Example of value	Default value	Note
--playout	The number of playouts per move	Integer more than 0	1000	-
--const-time	Time to thinking per move (seconds)	Real number	7.5	CONST_TIME ( = 10.0)	CONST_TIME is defined in include/mcts/SearchManager.hpp
--time	Total remaining time for a game (minutes)	Real number	1800.0	-
--thread	The number of search thread	Integer more than 0 and less than or equal to THREAD_MAX ( = 64 )	16	1	THREAD_MAX is defined in include/mcts/UctSearch.hpp
--reuse-subtree	Reusing MCTS sub-tree	-	-	-
--pondering	Pondering on opponent's thinking time	-	-	-
--tree-size	Maximum number of MCTS nodes	Integer power of 2	16834	UCT_HASH_SIZE ( = 16834 )	UCT_HASH_SIZE is defined in include/board/ZobristHash.hpp
--resign	Resign threshold	Rean number more than or equal to 0.0 and less than or equal to 1.0	0.1	RESIGN_THRESHOLD ( = 0.20 )	RESIGN_THRESHOLD is defined in include/mcts/MoveSelection.hpp

annotation

When the --pondering option is enabled, the --reuse-pondering option is automatically enabled automatically.

Misc

Option	Description	Value	Example of value	Default value	Note
--no-debug	No debug message mode	-	-	-

Example settings

By default settings, Ray will consume 10 seconds each move on a single CPU and require 800MB of memory.

./ray

Playing with 4 sec/move with 8 threads

./ray --const-time 4 --thread 8

Playing with 1000 playouts/move with 1 threads

./ray --playout 1000

Playing with 16 threads and 65536 uct nodes. Time setting is 30 minutes. Ray thinks during the opponent's turn.

./ray --time 1800 --thread 16 --tree-size 65536 --pondering

License

Ray is distributed under the BSD License. Please see the "COPYING" file.

Contact

rayauthor19x19@gmail.com (Yuki Kobayashi)