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Suggestion and question for working with a great new book.

Posted By: Stick
Date: Wednesday, 20 July 2011, at 5:03 p.m.

In Response To: Suggestion and question for working with a great new book. (Higonefive)

Kit Woolsey gave an average error rate of .03 for the “New Ideas in Backgammon” Problems

Did he? As far as I know I've never heard of this. What I do know is that his selection process for problems in the book had a margin of at least .050 between the best play and the second best play to be included in the book. This way it was a lot more unlikely that a future generation of bots would overturn their results. I'd like to know where you got the above quote from. (not that it really means anything even if it was said/written)

Stick

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• Suggestion and question for working with a great new book.
  Higonefive -- Wednesday, 20 July 2011, at 3:15 p.m.
  • Suggestion and question for working with a great new book.
    Stick -- Wednesday, 20 July 2011, at 5:03 p.m.
    • Suggestion and question for working with a great new book.
      Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 20 July 2011, at 5:40 p.m.
      • Suggestion and question for working with a great new book.
        Higonefive -- Wednesday, 20 July 2011, at 6:41 p.m.