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BGBlitz beats GNUBG at the 8th Computer Olympiad, Graz

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 3:02 p.m.

A report may be found here. I can't find the matches anywhere so if someone could post a link that would be great. It would be interesting to see what kind of PR XG thinks they played at. At this level of play, of course, close plays should really be subjected to a full rollout if we want any semblance of an accurate ER/PR measurement, but I don't personally have the computer power for that. And given that there was at least one superbackgame during the competition, even that may not really give us the "truth."

The opening-move junkies will undoubtedly be amused by the comment in the above report that "the first game [in the 4th 13-point match] begun with a strange opening error by GNU Backgammon," namely 43D-33E. Somehow I suspect that his comment isn't based on a belief that the correct move is 43D-33C.

Messages In This Thread

• BGBlitz beats GNUBG at the 8th Computer Olympiad, Graz
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 3:02 p.m.
  • BGBlitz beats GNUBG at the 8th Computer Olympiad, Graz
    Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 6:37 p.m.
    • bottom line: that competition held 8 years ago
      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 7:58 p.m.
      • bottom line: that competition held 8 years ago
        Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 8:23 p.m.
    • BGBlitz beats GNUBG at the 8th Computer Olympiad, Graz
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 5 April 2011, at 11:56 p.m.