Back in time, I wrote this remark to Snowie forum group and also Cc: the same
message directly to them.
For almost a year, they didn’t reply. No comment…
Why Snowie never resign?
Discussion started by Peter Nikolov on 11 Dec 2009 18:21
It’s a very strange fact that Snowie never resign… even in an absolutely lost
positions! Probably the creators of the program are not sincere and noble
enough openly & loudly to confess that sometimes Snowie also can lose a game-
just as anyone else does… Bad rolls, you know… lol
Maybe the so called “perfect” algorithm is not good to calculate when the
chance of win is equal to 0% (zero percent)!?
In such case Snowie is starting doing some really very strange moves. Instead
to resign, or at least to play still properly and lose with a dignity- leaving
less possible checkers on the board and avoiding the full disaster to be
gammoned. But in these circumstances Snowie behaves exactly like a small
irritated child who can’t reasonably accept his defeat. Is it not time to
grow-up? Version 5 perhaps?
Shame, Snowie, shame…
PS. Meanwhile someone responded to me that if in such circumstances you double,
then Snowie will resign the game 100% for sure. True. But just imagine you
can’t do it under current result in the match!
Viewpoint, anyone? :P
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