Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: New Contact Net Error Rates

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 20 Feb 2003 (08:51 -0500), address@hidden wrote:
> In a message dated 20/02/2003 12:05:02 GMT Standard Time, 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> 
> > The numbers for the newest incarnation
> > that Michael Depreli has published recently GOL have been 
> > really impressive!
> > 
> > David
> > 
> 
> Not wanting to put any dampeners on anything but as David rightly pointed out 
> I
> need to run an analysis with the nuGNU to get a full picture.
> I'm currently doing so and there are a few new positions where previously all 
> bots concurred where now nuGNU disagrees and rollouts have shown nuGNU to be 
> wrong. I'll update the results and report back.

This leads me to a point I've been wondering about. Everyone discusses
gnubg having errors on odd ply evaluations. Can someone explain why
this would be? I have always taken it on faith that this is true, but
I'd like to understand the mechanism.


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Jim Segrave           address@hidden