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Containing two checkers

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 10 August 2009, at 4:07 a.m.

In Response To: Containing two checkers (Matt Cohn-Geier)

You're right; I misremembered. Looking back over my notes, I see that when I did an expert-level rollout with gnubg, it evaluated it as no double.

The checker play looks difficult even for a bot, so I don't trust the absolute equities here, but it does look like redoubling is a mistake.

Messages In This Thread

• Containing two checkers
  Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 8 August 2009, at 6:30 p.m.
  • Containing two checkers
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 3:41 a.m.
    • Containing two checkers
      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 5:18 p.m.
      • Containing two checkers
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 5:23 p.m.
        • Containing two checkers
          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 10 August 2009, at 4:07 a.m.
          • Containing two checkers
            Chuck Bower -- Monday, 10 August 2009, at 2:10 p.m.