Re: [Bug-gnubg] I'm a bit confused

[Nis Jorgensen]

Jim Segrave wrote:

>On Wed 30 Jul 2003 (13:56 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:25:36PM +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote
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>>>On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:57:03PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote
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>>>>I just googled and as I read it, he's suggesting branching at
>>>>double/takes, not continuing after double/pass.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?view+567
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>But I wonder how well it works. Take a rollout of a position where one
>player has an equity well past the doubling point. The initial action
>is a double, so you now have two branches, one with an immediate
>double, the other branch will probably fork again with a double on the
>next play. 
>
I believe you have misunderstood the algorithm. BOTH branches start with
a double/take. In fact we are doing a "mini-rollout" (two trials) of the
position after DT.

This raises some problem for the quasi-random dice option.

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Nis Jorgensen
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