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From: | Nikos Papachristou |
Subject: | Re: current development |
Date: | Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:30:17 +0200 |
A link to something? article? software? did they use alpha-like strategies?-JosephOn Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 11:04, Philippe Michel <address@hidden> wrote: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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