RE: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-19 Thread Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon.
MK: Even though I think most of you won't absorb what I wrote above, because you all "divinely believe" in the current "cube skill theory", I won't consider it a total waste of my time even if it sows a seed of doubt in just one mind. I don’t "divinely believe" in the current cube theory. I

RE: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-19 Thread Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon.
MK: This is why I am doing my various experiments. One of which that I had previously mentioned in this very thread involves a "mutant cube strategy" of doubling at GWC > 50% and taking at GWC > 0%. In that experiment of 20,000 money games, the mutant won 40.80% of total points against GnuBG

RE: Interesting question/experiment about value of cube ownership

2024-03-19 Thread Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon.
MK "Those numbers are based on how the bot would play against itself. If you accept the bot's decisions as best/perfect and if you try to play just like bot, assuming that your opponent will also try to play just like the bot, of course you wouldn't/shouldn't double." Agreed. Against a worse

Backgammon "starting position" and how GnuBG handles it.

2024-03-19 Thread Murat K
On 3/16/2024 6:15 PM, Ian Shaw via "Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon. wrote: You wrote "Not the "equity" but the "equity difference" between the "from" position and the "to" position." I said that because you had written: "The Contact Net does not have an input for