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Don't use seed 1

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Saturday, 16 January 2010, at 2:59 p.m.

In Response To: XG 4 ply RO 64P 52 with and without Jacoby Rule (header bug will be fixed in upcoming patch) (neilkaz)

I strongly advise against defaulting to seed 1.

The problem with seed 1 is that if you accidentally roll out the same position twice, the additional data is useless. Everyone thinks this won't happen to them until it does. And even if you never have such an accident, if someone else (who hasn't received or heeded my warning) is using seed 1 and rolls out the same position as you (which can so easily occur when you're dealing with early game positions), the additional data is useless.

The advantage of seed 1 is that you don't have to remember which seed was used in case you want to run a parallel non-Jacoby or match score rollout, or reroll to check for corruption, etc. But IMO it is surely outweighed by considerations in the previous paragraph even IF there is no way to display the seed or determine which seed was used (which AFAIK is the case for Snowie, but isn't the case for Gnu, and hopefully isn't the case for XG).

Nack

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