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Use the bot to go through real matches

Posted By: playBunny
Date: Thursday, 30 July 2009, at 1:47 a.m.

In Response To: How To Use The Bots Most Effectively (playBunny)

So, given that you can't get a bot to play like a person, one of the best things, if you want to Gnu it, is to go through a match between people. Get a match between two players of whatever strength you're interested in and see what you'd do for each of their moves.

Don't analyse the match beforehand. It also helps to have the move record in an undocked window and shrink it so that you have access to the Next button but don't get to see what's coming in the list of moves.

When your play differs from the players then you have a learning point, either in terms of what you should do that's better or about what kinds of mistakes people make. Analyse those moves individually and see what GnuBg's says about whose thinking is along the right lines.

If you haven't analysed each move in turn already, at the end of each game you can analyse all of it and see what errors you and the players both made (and that you obviously didn't spot).

I use this method occasionally with matches played between the top players at DailyGammon. Finding such matches is easy. Downloading them is trivial. It's also good with less-than-top players because they get themselves into all sorts of trouble and you'll see matches with them that you'll never see if you play a bot-level opponent.

It's an interesting exercise because, although you don't direct the game and there's no winning to be done, you are in effect playing both of the opponents at once, with the competition being the skill displayed.

Some of the matches have even been played by people trying to emulate the bot! There's an Error Rate Tourney at DailyGammon where you win the point by having the lowest error rate. The match score is irrelevant (although there's a table of match points for interest). Note that these are GnuBg's error rates, not Snowie's. There are some fine performances up at the top and the Statistics page shows that there's consistency, too. Take a bow Petter B! Take a bow The Dice Man!

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