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From: | Timothy Y. Chow |
Subject: | Re: current development |
Date: | Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:32:06 -0500 (EST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.21 (LRH 202 2017-01-01) |
In my opinion, a phone version would broaden appeal / access but the most critical issue is the neural nets. XG feels like a very different animal as an opponent - noticeably more opportunistic & aggressive, so some degree of congruence asap seems critical for gnubg to hold ground.
This sounds like psychological confirmation bias to me. I don't think that XG and GNU play differently enough for any human to notice, unless we're talking about the "crippled" modes where the bot intentionally makes errors.
To be more specific, I would guess that over the course of 100 games, there would be only a handful of decisions that GNU 2-ply and XG 3-ply would make differently (excluding those non-contact positions where it doesn't really matter what you play), and I very much doubt that XG would be consistently "more opportunistic and aggressive." I would be happy to be proved wrong, though.
Tim
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