>On gammonline "Stick" claimed that 0ply doubled early. That came as a >bit of a surprise to me, so I set gnubg up to play expert/expert. >After around 20000 games gnubg had used more than half of the >computers memory and I cancelled the match at that point. Then I did a >2ply analysis of the cube actions only. The statistics is striking, >Almost a third of 0ply's doubles are considered early and the ratio >(early doubles):(missed double takes) is 10:1. The cube action of 0ply >is still excellent though. > >Perhaps all this is just a manifestation of gnubg 0ply overestimating >the equity of the player on roll, but I still found it interesting.
Could that be caused by the fact that 0-ply cannot 'see' the absence of market-losers (and hence doubles when it shouldn't since in any case next turn is not gonna be a double-drop) ? MaX.
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