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Re: current development
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Philippe Michel |
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Re: current development |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Dec 2019 23:04:00 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21) |
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 02:07:18PM -0500, Timothy Y. Chow wrote:
> Also, it's my impression that many people *don't* think this is even a
> worthwhile idea to pursue. Backgammon is already "solved," is what they
> will say. It's true that "AlphaGammon" will surely not crush existing
> bots in a series of (say) 11-point matches. At most I would expect a
> slight advantage. But to me, that is the wrong way to look at the issue.
> I would like to understand superbackgames for their own sake, even though
> they arise rarely in practice. Furthermore, if we know that bots don't
> understand superbackgames, then the closer a position gets to being a
> superbackgame, the less we can trust the bot verdict.
I'm not sure how related it may be, but there is a group of Greek
academics that have published some articles on their work on a bot,
Palamedes, that plays backgammon but also variants that have different
rules and starting positions and lead to positions that would be very
uncommon in backgammon.
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- Re: current development, Øystein Schønning-Johansen, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
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- Re: current development, Timothy Y. Chow, 2019/12/04
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- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/04
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Øystein Schønning-Johansen, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/05
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/06
- Re: current development, Joseph Heled, 2019/12/06
- Re: current development, Nikos Papachristou, 2019/12/06
- Re: current development, Timothy Y. Chow, 2019/12/05