I think Christian gets to the heart of the problem. It's not only doubles that are an issue; it's the moves as well. It makes no sense to implement one without the other.
Suppose an opening goes 43: 13/9 13/10 is a 0.02 error. Many experts play this because it leads to more complicated games, where they feel they have an advantage. How can gnubg know if : A) The player thought it was the best move. B) The player played a non-best move because he wants to induce errors from the opponent. C) The opponent made a mistake induced by the player's error. D) The opponent would have made that mistake anyway. I see no way to read intent, so I think gnubg is best off scoring players against "perfect" play (assuming perfect analysis, of course). -- Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Christian Anthon > Sent: 25 July 2006 15:27 > To: Albert Silver > Cc: bug-gnubg@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Permit GNU to consider deliberate cube errors > > Well I suppose you would like to implement bad non-doubles, > bad takes and bad moves as well. If you can come up with a > good way to measure these, I'm sure the idea stands a much > bigger chance of being put in to gnubg. > > Christian. > > On 7/25/06, Albert Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wasn't sure how to put this in the subject, but the idea > is simple enough: > > > > Allow GNU to consider deliberate cubing errors that are played in > > oredr to entice larger decisions from the opponent. What this would > > mean is that while it could give the absolute values of the equity > > lost when I doubled > > (ex: doubling is a 0.150 blunder), and the equity lost when my > > opponent made a mistake in dropping (doubling might be a 0.150 > > blunder, but my opponent makes an evenor taking, it would > also give an > > alternative grade/evaluation allowing for deliberate errors. > > _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
