Re: [Bug-gnubg] Resign Snowie, resign!

[motiv4u]

Snowie chooses the best move out of the list of possible moves.

If all moves are equal (all with 0%) the first move in the list is as good as all others.

So Snowie plays a 'random' move. Nothing bad or good about that one. Just the best move. As did GNU Backgammon a long time ago.

N.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Peter Nikolov <address@hidden> wrote:

Back in time, I wrote this remark to Snowie forum group and also Cc: the same message directly to them.

For almost a year, they didn’t reply. No comment…  

 

Why Snowie never resign?

Discussion started by Peter Nikolov on 11 Dec 2009 18:21

It’s a very strange fact that Snowie never resign… even in an absolutely lost positions! Probably the creators of the program are not sincere and noble enough openly & loudly to confess that sometimes Snowie also can lose a game- just as anyone else does… Bad rolls, you know… lol
Maybe the so called “perfect” algorithm is not good to calculate when the chance of win is equal to 0% (zero percent)!?

In such case Snowie is starting doing some really very strange moves. Instead to resign, or at least to play still properly and lose with a dignity- leaving less possible checkers on the board and avoiding the full disaster to be gammoned. But in these circumstances Snowie behaves exactly like a small irritated child who can’t reasonably accept his defeat. Is it not time to grow-up? Version 5 perhaps?

Shame, Snowie, shame…

 

 

 

PS. Meanwhile someone responded to me that if in such circumstances you double, then Snowie will resign the game 100% for sure. True. But just imagine you can’t do it under current result in the match!

 

Viewpoint, anyone? :P

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