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The True Test of Skill is Duplicate BG
Posted By: Stick In Response To: The True Test of Skill is Duplicate BG (Timothy Chow)
Date: Sunday, 26 September 2010, at 1:31 a.m.
It makes sense that you should know the best 2nd, 4th, 6th, ... roll plays, but do you really need to know the best 3rd and 5th roll plays if you never play the bot's #1? Given that one's memory is limited, surely it makes sense to focus on mastering one's own repertoire rather than someone else's repertoire.
I agree you should devote your limited time to whatever is most likely to come up in actual play but remember that because you play 32S every time you roll an opening 32 doesn't mean that you aren't going to be forced into playing 32D when you're behind in the match. This will hold for a lot of the opening rolls, to be played one way, your 'default' way, at normal scores and then switched over to a second or even third option AtS. (it also goes without saying that the third roll responses you might face at these scores could also be different, so instead of memorizing this and that you should concentrate on learning how to play the game)
Is PR calculated in the optimal way?
I'm not sure if I or anyone else understood this. What I believe Perry was saying originally is not related to PR. You chose a play, if it's wrong, you're dinged with an error of .035 for example. At the end of the quiz, you add up all your errors, that's your score. The lowest score is obviously what you're going for, with all your answers matching the bot's rolled out answers. The only real problem I have with this method of scoring is nobody takes the time to roll out the problems well past stat. sig. To hold this kind of quiz as I've said before, you need the rollouts to take the variance basically as low as possible, +/- .001 so in the event of two players having a close score it isn't decided by variance which could still be way off on the true value of your errors.
Stick
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