Thanks motiv4u for your useful answer. Thanks again as well to Philippe
Michel and Ian Shaw - you all offer a lot of useful explanations and
material to study.

By the way, aided by the rather "ragged" automatic Google translation into
English, I did understand precisely most of the material in the Danish paper
referred to by Philippe about EPC and the approximate formula, admittadly
except for the "adjustments" to the formula. If anyone (Danish or else)
succeeded in understanding that bit too - I'd be glad to be informed.

-- Adi

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:13 AM, motiv4u <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Adi Kadmon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > I'd like very much to have the following information:
> >
> > (1) What is GNUbg's formula for calculating "EPC"/"Trice count" of
> bearoff
> > positions?
> >
> > (2) Is that formula, or any approximation thereof, practically usable by
> a
> > human player during a real game?
> >
> > (3) Is the EPC/Trice count, if calculated precisely, actually more
> "correct"
> > than, for instance, Ward count or Keith count, for cube decisions in
> bearoff
> > positions?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- Adi
> >
> You find Trice's EPC count on bkg.com (among lots of other things)
> http://www.bkgm.com/articles/EffectivePipCount/
>
> N.
>
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