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Play A "loses more gammons"

Posted By: Matt Ryder
Date: Tuesday, 19 January 2010, at 5:28 a.m.

In Response To: Play A "loses more gammons" (Timothy Chow)

During each trial of the rollout, GNU keeps track of the cube, and then terminates either when one side bears everything off, or the trial ends in double/drop.

That makes some sense. Thanks for the explanation. What I'm confused about are the scenarios where there's a further double and a take. And what about when that taken redouble is itself potentially redoubled? Given the tree of bifurcating decisions to be rolled out to get to complete statistics, I suspect we currently don't have the computing power equal to the task. I think that's why Janowski is utilised. Perhaps in some massively multi-core future, we can achieve rollouts of this complexity. But even in such a future, I'm at a loss to see how this level of detail could be succinctly communicated or be of much use to feeble carbon-based minds.

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• Play A "loses more gammons"
  Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 17 January 2010, at 4:33 p.m.
  • Play A "loses more gammons"
    Tom Keith -- Sunday, 17 January 2010, at 5:27 p.m.
    • Play A "loses more gammons"
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:59 a.m.
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    Matt Ryder -- Sunday, 17 January 2010, at 5:37 p.m.
    • Play A "loses more gammons"
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:38 a.m.
      • Slight correction
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 4:15 a.m.
      • Play A "loses more gammons"
        Matt Ryder -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 6:06 a.m.
        • Play A "loses more gammons"
          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 6:54 p.m.
          • Play A "loses more gammons"
            NJ -- Tuesday, 19 January 2010, at 3:15 a.m.
          • Play A "loses more gammons"
            Matt Ryder -- Tuesday, 19 January 2010, at 5:28 a.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 17 January 2010, at 7:07 p.m.
    • Play A "loses more gammons"
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:44 a.m.
      • Play A "loses more gammons"
        Bob Koca -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 4:33 a.m.
        • Play A "loses more gammons"
          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 4:52 a.m.
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            Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 2:30 p.m.
            • Play A "loses more gammons"
              Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 7:24 p.m.
              • Play A "loses more gammons"
                Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 8:47 p.m.
          • Play A "loses more gammons"
            Bob Koca -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 6:44 p.m.
  • Question for fans of cubelessness
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:53 a.m.
    • Question for fans of cubelessness
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 3:59 a.m.
      • Question for fans of cubelessness
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 January 2010, at 4:04 a.m.