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The next major revolution in backgammon bots

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Thursday, 10 May 2012, at 1:37 p.m.

In Response To: The next major revolution in backgammon bots (Timothy Chow)

I believe the next major revolution in bots is to develop bots that come right out and tell you why a play or cube decision is right, with words, instead of math. Now, we can take a position and give it to an expert, and he can tell you that play A leaves too many shots; or play B gets you the cube or gets you gammoned too often. If those kinds of explanations could be incorporated into a program, they would clearly "teach" the game.

Right now, a lot of what I do as a teacher is to simply explain why the bot says what it says. (That's not all a teacher does, as we also offer concepts and approaches to decision-making to help you make the right decision, and we also help you understand what reference positions and numbers are key to know and how and when to apply them, as well as provide insights about playing humans that the bots do not tell us.)

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