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Backgammon, Poker, and PRs

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 28 February 2016, at 5:01 p.m.

In Response To: Backgammon, Poker, and PRs (Florin Popa)

Florian Popa wrote:

I am not 100% sure XG is favourite to perform better than best human players in many tournaments, it could take sometimes bad decisions against weak player like redoubling to 4 in a race, keeping the cube would be a better decision considering 7 or more points difference in PR.

It's still going to be a big favorite, just not as gigantic a favorite as it would be if it could exploit your weaknesses in this way.

XG still doesn't understand backgames with almost all checkers back, but it's pretty hard to steer the game in that direction in a tournament (as opposed to a money-game session).

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