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Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 10:17 p.m.

In Response To: Solved (Stick)

Ah, that makes sense!

This does remind me of something I've wondered about, though. Sometimes that little XG 3-ply icon appears and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to figure out any rhyme or reason to when it appears. If XG decides that the play is so obvious that there's no need to go to 3-ply, then I can see why the icon wouldn't appear, but sometimes several plays will be subjected to 4-ply analysis (using my default settings), and the 3-ply icon will sometimes appear and sometimes it won't. I don't really care that much, but this behavior has puzzled me.

A related observation is that when I choose "XG Roller+" as an opponent, sometimes the bot will make a move other than the one with the highest XGR+ evaluation, because its filtering rules cause it to decide not to bother with an XGR+ evaluation. There is of course no way to prevent this sort of thing categorically, short of forcing every legal play through XGR+, but I'm sort of curious whether this sort of thing has ever happened in the OLM. Certainly in my own matches against "XG Roller+", I have noticed this kind of anomaly occurring once in a while.

Messages In This Thread

• Understanding XG
  Chiva Tafazzoli -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 9:17 p.m.
  • Understanding XG
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 9:31 p.m.
    • Understanding XG
      Chiva Tafazzoli -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 9:37 p.m.
    • My play
      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 11:24 p.m.
  • Understanding XG
    Stick -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 9:38 p.m.
  • Solved
    Stick -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 9:59 p.m.
    • Solved
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 10:17 p.m.
      • Solved
        Stick -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 10:21 p.m.
        • Solved
          Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 4:24 p.m.
          • Solved
            Stick -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 6:12 p.m.
            • Solved
              eXtreme Gammon -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 7:59 p.m.
              • Solved
                Stick -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 8:09 p.m.
                • Solved
                  eXtreme Gammon -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 8:43 p.m.
                  • Solved
                    Stick -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 8:48 p.m.
              • Solved
                Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 1:03 a.m.
    • "It's not a bug. It's a feature."
      lenny -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 1:00 a.m.
  • Understanding XG
    Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 10:09 p.m.
    • Understanding XG
      Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 10:16 p.m.
  • My RO
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 1:26 a.m.