[ View Thread ] [ Post Response ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

BGonline.org Forums

SNOWIE ROLLOUTS

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 5 January 2010, at 11:38 p.m.

In Response To: SNOWIE ROLLOUTS (Ray Kershaw)

If you have a Gammon Village account, Doug Zare has a good article entitled "Rollouts" (22 October 2002) that should answer your questions.

I don't own Snowie, but as I understand it, a "cubeful equity" is obtained by rolling the game out cubeless and applying Janowski's formulas as an adjustment. A "live cube" rollout is a rollout in which Snowie keeps track of the cube and makes cube decisions during the course of the rollout.

One reason you can't always compute the equity from the 6 probabilities even in a live-cube rollout is that those 6 probabilities don't tell you everything. For example, you don't know how many of the single wins were double/drop and how many were double/take/win. The former nets one point while the latter nets two points, but they're both counted as single wins (as are the wins with the cube on even higher values).

Messages In This Thread

 

Post Response
Your Name:
Your E-Mail Address:
Subject:
Message:

If necessary, enter your password below:

Password:
 

 

[ View Thread ] [ Post Response ] [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

BGonline.org Forums is maintained by Stick with WebBBS 5.12.