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Gammon rate in $ Games?

Posted By: Jake Jacobs
Date: Saturday, 11 July 2015, at 3:38 a.m.

In Response To: Gammon rate in $ Games? (Bob Koca)

To make things clearer, let's call XG's rates, where playing itself the win rates are 36% for each side, with gammon rates of 14% for each side, "optimal." We will further agree that in the course of heated discussion if someone instead says "50%," or "28%" they really mean the same thing.

If XG plays a human and wins 40% games and 16% gammons while losing 32% and 12% respectively, it isn't playing better, though its results are better; its opponent is playing worse. We may assume the same with two humans playing. And expert can player "better" as he approaches "optimal," but as his results get "better" (if he is already expert) it implies that his current opponent plays "worse" than average, and the win percent and gammon percent for each side change accordingly.

Not to completely exclude the possibility that a human might be able to exploit his opponent's flaws. Then he would be playing "better" than XG.

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