Re: [Bug-gnubg] The match and game data structure

[Philippe Michel]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jonathan Kinsey wrote:

> Christian Anthon wrote:
> > If the structure is altered it would be a good thing to be able to
> > store multiple evaulations of a position: plies, rollouts, different
> > METs (perhaps even different scores) and also different moves made by
> > humans or bots so that you could e.g. replay a match between giants
> > and have your choices analysed.
>
> Not sure if you mean to allow multiple 'paths' in one game - like
> chessmaster if you've seen that (or some go programs - not sure if
> snowie lets you do this).

Contrary to chess, branches many moves deep don't make much sense in 
backgammon IMHO. On the other hand, adding a list of variants to an 
analyzed position (different score, or some checkers shifted to change the 
pipcount for instance) may be nice.