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brainstorming -- relational database for reference positions

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 1 March 2011, at 7:22 p.m.

In Response To: brainstorming -- relational database for reference positions (Frank Berger)

Is it useful to search for a dice roll?

Rollouts of opening rolls, 2nd rolls, 3rd rolls,... are becoming a staple of the game. Right now I want to search these! :)

...How can some checkers describe a position?

Here is a (verbal) sample of a potential search criterion:

A) cube decision for money/unlimited play, cube owned by the player who...

B) owns the 20-point, but no other points in opponent's homeboard,

C) owns the midpoint, but no other points in opponent's outfield,

while the opponent:

D) owns his midpoint, but no other points on that side of the board,

E, F, G)...

Of course what I've described so far could be categorized "holding game", and that description field could be a database entry. But there are many positions (in my experience) that fit into multiple verbal bins, and others that don't seem to fit into any. If you have a robust search method (which RDB's specialize in) then you don't need to depend upon (inexact) verbal labels.

As you know, the modern bots have precise methods for match-ID which tell the position of all 30 checkers plus the doubling cube location, diceroll, and matchscore. These are natural keys/indexes.

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