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Very nice, but just a tad conservative for raw pip counts

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Thursday, 4 February 2010, at 5:00 a.m.

In Response To: Very nice, but just a tad conservative for raw pip counts (Timothy Chow)

"The advantage of the one-checker model is that one can analyze it precisely. The disadvantage, of course, is that real 67-pip/75-pip positions don't behave quite like the one-checker model, even if we restrict our attention to "low-wastage" positions. Neil seems to be suggesting that the distinction might actually make a difference to the doubling window by a pip or so in some cases."

Low wastage positions differ from the one-checker model in that they behave like slightly longer races. It seems to me that practically speaking one might simply add a pip to both raw pip-counts before applying the "gold-standard" formula. Such an adjustment would correct the small errors Neil pointed out. Of course who knows what else it would break.

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