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Play A "loses more gammons"

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:44 a.m.

In Response To: Play A "loses more gammons" (Bob Koca)

Bob Koca wrote:

One reason it that it would make the results less useful for purposes of applying the money results to match play.

I don't understand this objection. If you want to understand what is going on in a match situation, then roll it out ATS. Why roll it out either cubeless or for money if that's not what you're really interested in?

It sounds like you're trying to get away with a single rollout that tells you what you need to know for all match scores. We know that this isn't really possible, so why settle for this solution?

In any case, can you explain your argument that "cubeless" numbers, obtained by playing checkers as if it were a money game and using a 2-ply evaluation to "fake" the numbers in case of a double/drop, give you more useful information for deciding what to do at some strange score than actual money-play numbers would? Both approaches are technically incorrect, and I don't understand why the former is less incorrect than the latter.

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