Re: BGBlitz 1.7 won against GNU-BG 0.14 at the 8 Computer Olympiad.....

Frank Berger wrote:

> [...]
> In matchplay.... hard to tell. Probably I have to ask an mathmatican
> ;)
> Currently the cubing algorithm in matchplay neither uses volatility
> analysis nor cube vigorish and the matches in Graz showed that all but
> one error were cubing errors. I'm quite confident that I will come up
> with an state-of-the-art cubing soon and then it will be as close as
> with the checkerplay.
>
> In terms of your offer for moneyplay. Believe it or not: I never
> played a single game of Backgammon for money. I will not change that,
> just to prove anything. And naturally you know as good as I, that such
> a game will be totally determined by random. Otherwise I'm open to any
> challenge, e.g. at FIBS.

Totally determined by random? I'm not sure what you mean
by that, if you believe winning a best-of-five is meaningful.

My question is about what you believe was demonstrated by
your victory, and any other tests you have performed. Even
if you don't normally bet, of what are you so confident that
you would be willing to bet? If you don't think BGBlitz is a
favorite, should we think so?

> BTW may I ask for the status of your bot? I'm very curious about it.
> Don't forget my offer, BGBlitz is able to host several bots, so if you
> want to take a shortcut.....

Zbot is coming soon.

Zbot's network architecture is very different from that of current
bots. The front end also contains many new features. I don't see
a good way to fit either of these in a different front end.

Douglas Zare