Re: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-01 Thread Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon.
"Is making the bot auto-play the same as doing rollouts?" It sounds like you are asking what a rollout is? There are plenty of resources on the net. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/manual/html_node/Introduction-to-rollouts.html https://www.bkgm.com/openings/rollouts.html Your auto-play

Re: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-01 Thread MK
On 3/1/2024 6:22 AM, Ian Shaw wrote: 27000 trials at 0-ply and 1-ply. 135000 trials at 2-ply. There’s almost no difference in value between the rollout that took 8 minutes and the one that tool 23 hours, which speaks to the strength of the initial evaluation. This is good to know. Can you

RE: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-01 Thread Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon.
I've rolled at the opening position again, at money play. 27000 trials at 0-ply and 1-ply. 135000 trials at 2-ply. There's almost no difference in value between the rollout that took 8 minutes and the one that tool 23 hours, which speaks to the strength of the initial evaluation. The rollout