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Interesting Prop

Posted By: Jack Mack
Date: Wednesday, 7 September 2016, at 1:29 a.m.

In Response To: Interesting Prop (Timothy Chow)

Assuming that there is a "best roll" in response to each "best roll", I don't see how that would be different than XG's calling "just this one best roll" and then "just this one best roll" and then "just this one best roll"...

You must be thinking about the logic flaw in rollouts with the bot playing both sides, by calling "just this one best move" and then "just this one best move" and then "just this one best move"...

In either case, if one of the players skips on calling "just this one best roll" or calling "just this one best move", it becomes harder to calculate/look ahead and the meanings of "best roll" or "best move" are lost.

If you take a series of successive "best moves" in a rollout and change one of them to a "blunder" but leave the rest the same, then the "best move" immediately preceeding that "blunder" will/may no longer be the "best move" anymore and in fact, it may become THE "losing move".

It's an amuzing puzzle (or is it puzzling amuzement) that an ark load of giants and theoreticians fail to see this.

To recap:

- A "blunder" inserted at a point in a series of "best rolls" or "best moves" will/may render the rest of the "best rolls" or "best moves" not so anymore.

- That's why rollouts are of little/limited use to human players!

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