Re: [Bug-gnubg] [Q] EvaluatePosition(), Utility(), and testing boards

[Thomas Hauk]

Thanks for the quick responses!

> I think Joseph Heled has a set of test positions used for training and
> testing the net. Otherwise, no, I don't know of any benchmarks sets.

Joseph, if you're reading this, could you contact me about your set of 
test positions as soon as possible?

I was also thinking I could also add positions in books by Famous People 
(Magriel, etc) to any existing test set (would also be interesting to see 
how a deep-search gnubg differs from human analysis, or other computer 
backgammon analysis).

I am making good progress on my backgammon program and hope to have a 
tournament set up soon, between existing forward-pruned 3-ply (you call 
2-ply?) search in gnubg versus star1/star2 3-ply search (no forward 
pruning). I've been able to write my own code for everything except the 
evaluation function (i.e. NN).

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