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Correlation between ER and opponent

Posted By: mtuhtan
Date: Friday, 10 December 2010, at 3:39 p.m.

In Response To: Correlation between ER and opponent (poseidon)

I disagree with most of things that you said, based on my experience.


I suspect that playing against a bot is more difficult, due to various reasons: 1) More often games take complicated forms (that also last longer due to more hits) due to unusual checker plays from the bot (strong) side.

Bot plays "cleaner" than average player in some tournament in Croatia (where I live and play; ER much above 6.0). Bot's positions are more standard, everyday, already seen.
Average player, especially from Bosnia (where traditional tavla is dominant), makes errors (starting already on 1st roll), buries checkers on low points, have some strange "logic", plays whatever he first see, etc. - making positions strange and weird for someone that is used to play against bot. It is more difficult to play in those unseen positions.


More often cube decisions from the bot (strong) side are at "grey", close zones (if a player is not very strong (B) he usually doubles too early or too late, thus making the decision for the taker (A) easier/clearer

Bot will double on its first opportunity, making take/pass decision easy. Players would either forget to double or will wait on purpose until take/pass decision is harder.


(How) can we relate the expected E.R. of a player of a known strength, given the strength of his opponent?

My ER against bot or good human player (ER 5 or better) is much lower than when I play against some (under)average player.

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