Re: Trouble calculating fully live take points

[Lasse Hjorth Madsen]

Thanks, Tim. I don't think the problem is simply that I fail to factor gammons in, because my dead-cube take points agree with GNU, also for gammonish positions. It is only when I try to *both* account for gammons and a fully live cube, that I see a discrepancy.

I think I will try to examine the source code (although that might not be so simple).

/Lasse

søn. 11. jun. 2023 kl. 15.10 skrev Timothy Y. Chow <tchow@math.princeton.edu>:

Lasse Hjorth Madsen wrote:
> Funny enough, when I try examples with no gammons, I can reproduce GNUs
> fully live TPs exactly.
>
> If anybody can explain what I’m doing wrong, I would be forever
> grateful.

I'd also be interested in the answer to this question.  Given your comment
about gammons, I suspect that what GNU is calling live-cube take points is
"gammon-adjusted."  This means it's supposed to be the win percentage you
need to take, given the number of gammons you win and lose.  If the gammon
situation is unfavorable for you, then you need more wins to take, so that
would explain why the reported live-cube take point is higher than what
you calculated.

But, I haven't looked at the source code.

Tim