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Rare XG occurrence

Posted By: Stick
Date: Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 4:30 a.m.

In Response To: Rare XG occurrence (Stanley E. Richards)

The variance left in your rollouts is astronomical and you can draw no conclusions from what you posted. In setting up XG I believe you have variance reduction toggled off. Make sure this is on, Options >> Settings >> Rollouts and there will be a box to check variance reduction. I would also set the seed number to 0 or random seed.

XG 3 ply will be wrong and often, like GNU 2 ply or Snowie 3 ply. One of the many advantages to XG though is you don't have to settle for 3 ply, you can get XGR+ analysis on the spot and nearly as quick as 3 ply which isn't an option for the other bots. XGR+ is a truncated rollout, for more info check the help file.

When 3 ply is wrong or you decide you question XGR+ another of the huge advantages is that to get that magical rollout answer it takes significantly less time than either of the other bots. So even when you get to say 'in your face XGR+' the great thing is you get to do it 10x faster than if you would have used one of the other bots for the rollout.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• Rare occurrence
  Stanley E. Richards -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 3:21 p.m.
  • Rare occurrence
    Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 5:17 p.m.
    • Rare occurrence
      christian munk-christensen -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 6:58 p.m.
  • Rare occurrence
    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 9:53 p.m.
  • Rare occurrence
    Joe Russell -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 11:34 p.m.
  • Rare occurrence
    Stein Kulseth -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 8:56 a.m.
  • Rare occurrence
    Alfred Mamlet -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 12:45 p.m.
  • Rare XG occurrence
    Stanley E. Richards -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 4:24 a.m.
    • Rare XG occurrence
      Stick -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 4:30 a.m.
      • Rare XG occurrence
        Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 3:46 p.m.
        • Rare XG occurrence
          neilkaz -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 4:14 p.m.
    • Longer rollout with variance reduction
      Stanley E. Richards -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 4:34 p.m.
      • Longer rollout with variance reduction
        Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 10:04 p.m.
    • Rare XG occurrence
      Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 9:30 p.m.