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Bots, cubes, and equities
Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 19 May 2013, at 2:27 a.m.
In Response To: major disagreement between GnuBG 0-4 ply and rollout...or, am I doing it wrong?! (Taper_Mike)
Xavier explains here how XG evaluates cube decisions. For an explanation of the Janowski formulae, the GNU documentation is pretty good.
You're right that the doubling decision is based on relative equities. I was thinking more about the take/pass decision when I said that absolute equities are required.
Messages In This Thread
- major disagreement between GnuBG 0-4 ply and rollout...or, am I doing it wrong?!
bb766 -- Friday, 17 May 2013, at 4:09 a.m.
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Taper_Mike -- Friday, 17 May 2013, at 7:52 a.m.
- major disagreement between GnuBG 0-4 ply and rollout...or, am I doing it wrong?!
Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 17 May 2013, at 8:15 a.m.
- major disagreement between GnuBG 0-4 ply and rollout...or, am I doing it wrong?!
Michael Nielsen -- Friday, 17 May 2013, at 8:40 a.m.
- major disagreement between GnuBG 0-4 ply and rollout...or, am I doing it wrong?!
Timothy Chow -- Friday, 17 May 2013, at 11:58 p.m.
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