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It's starting to look like a bug ..

Posted By: eXtreme Gammon
Date: Monday, 31 October 2011, at 5:32 p.m.

In Response To: It's starting to look like a bug .. (misja)

Misja Does this imply that XG would play stronger if it would use those dice map equities for its evaluation, instead of its current algorithm?

Surely, but at a huge time cost. for instance using the normal interval and for a 3-ply, up to 8 move will need to be analyzed for each roll in 2-ply, that would result in making the program 8 times slower. The penalty would be exponentially worse for higher plies.

XGRoller+(+) do that: 2-ply for the first move in XGR+ (3-ply for XGR++), but on a subset all the posibilities and that seems to be a good compromise between strength and speed.

Messages In This Thread

• Strange XG Evaluation
  misja -- Sunday, 30 October 2011, at 2:06 p.m.
  • Strange XG Evaluation
    Stick -- Sunday, 30 October 2011, at 5:56 p.m.
  • Strange XG Evaluation
    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 30 October 2011, at 5:58 p.m.
  • It's starting to look like a bug ..
    misja -- Monday, 31 October 2011, at 7:57 a.m.
    • It's starting to look like a bug ..
      eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 31 October 2011, at 2:36 p.m.
      • It's starting to look like a bug ..
        neilkaz -- Monday, 31 October 2011, at 3:08 p.m.
      • It's starting to look like a bug ..
        misja -- Monday, 31 October 2011, at 3:33 p.m.
        • It's starting to look like a bug ..
          eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 31 October 2011, at 5:32 p.m.