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Duplicate backgammon?

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 4:58 a.m.

In Response To: Duplicate backgammon? (Bob Koca)

I sort of use the same approach that Hal and Kit used in New Ideas...I run it by some top players and see what they find difficult and what they get wrong, and I assume those plays are probably harder and should receive more points if gotten right.

Since we can never be sure if the bot is right, or if a player is right, all we can do is estimate, but I am pretty sure that at the end of the test we have a pretty good idea of just how good players are, because on the close ones, if they make the second or third best play they don't lose many points....they only lose a lot on a blunder, and generally, after a rollout, we can usually be fairly certain that the blunder is not the best play.

Messages In This Thread

• Duplicate backgammon?
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:31 p.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    jdg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:50 p.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    likesbg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 6:09 p.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 6:18 p.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
    • Duplicate backgammon?
      Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 8:41 p.m.
      • Duplicate backgammon?
        Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 12:45 a.m.
        • Duplicate backgammon?
          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:20 a.m.
          • Duplicate backgammon?
            Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 4:58 a.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 7:04 p.m.
  • Duplicate backgammon?
    Maik Stiebler -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 9:43 p.m.