Re: [Bug-gnubg] GnuBG faring poorly in back games

[Joseph Heled]

On 6/11/05, Rod Roark <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 04:44 pm, Joseph Heled wrote:
> > On 6/11/05, Rod Roark <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> > >   XB = (B > 3) ? B - 3 : 0;
> > >   MWC2 = MWC * (1 - 0.6 * XB / 12);
> > >
> > > This is probably too simple because we'd also want to
> > > consider how the back men are spread among their points.
> > > But does this make sense as a general concept?
> > >
> >
> > I can give a definite "I don't know the answer" here. One have to try
> > it out and see. My bitter experience says it is fiendishly difficult,
> > and would require lots of energy and ingenuity. I don't have the time
> > or inclination at this stage to tackle this, unless I can get money
> > for trying this );
> 
> I hear you.  I barely have time to worry about it myself,
> but it's just irritating to see ParlorBot and the other bots
> being so taken advantage of.
> 
> Why don't you tell me where I might plug in such a formula,
> and I'll try it out with ParlorBot and perhaps tweak it over
> time, hopefully getting some better play from it.  We can
> worry about rollouts later.

Well you can't just "plug it in" to a running bot. Like I said this
needs to be tested and twiked to see if it helps at all - because most
likely it will not - certainly not the first tries ...

-Joseph
> 
> BTW remember I use "hint 1" to get plays, in case this
> matters.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Rod
>