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GNU vs XG walking in a prime

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 18 September 2009, at 5:12 p.m.

In Response To: GNU vs XG walking in a prime (Daniel Murphy)

Manually—and it's a useful exercise—you could roll a prime from home board to home board all day long without ever letting a checker escape.

I did try this once. Well, I didn't spend all day, but I did about five or six walks of this length. The board cracked once but the checker didn't escape. I stopped because it didn't seem like I would get any meaningful statistics out of this exercise.

Did you really try this "all day"? Why do you think it's a useful exercise?

Writing the dynamic program would, I think, be a useful exercise. I did ask Art Benjamin and his reply indicated that his interests have moved away from backgammon. So if anyone else has a Master's student looking for a project, I think this is a good one.

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