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[Bug-gnubg] luck analysis suggestion
From: |
O.M. Riordan |
Subject: |
[Bug-gnubg] luck analysis suggestion |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:20:38 +0000 (GMT) |
I have a suggestion about luck analysis, namely to have an option to
increase the depth of the analysis used (probably 1-ply analysis of each
roll rather than the current 0-ply is most likely to be useful).
(Better luck analysis would be very useful for comparing gunbg with other
programs - the quickest way to get stastically significant results is to
use unbiased luck analysis on matches between them; the current analysis
is not good enough to give quick convergence, as shown by analyzing sample
matches and comparing the appropriate sum/difference of luck and error
rates with 50%. Using deeper analysis, together with results from Tony
Lezard's Dueller, it should be practical to compare gnubg with the rather
more expensive Snowie 4; since the difference in strength seems likely to
be small, this would be good for gnubg.)
Oliver Riordan
P.S. I noticed that the changelog says that luck analysis has been changed
to use cubeful analysis, whereas this is not the case. (There is still a
FIXME in analysis.c about thsi.)
- [Bug-gnubg] luck analysis suggestion,
O.M. Riordan <=