I think this was asked earlier by someone  else. Have you tried both these
versions of Gnubg where Threads have been set to one on each. One thing some
of us have noticed is that results can vary based on threads being higher
than 1. I am just curious. What results on rollouts do you get when you run
with 1 thread only (I am trying to eliminate the most obvious reason for a
possible difference). If I understand your output below you have 2 versions
with same settings producing different results.


On 28/08/09 2:15 AM, "Neil Robins" <[email protected]> wrote:

> TRUMP THIS FOR NONSENSE
>  
> I now have two versions of GNU open on my computer and after a lot of trial
> and error, clicking around etc, but changing no basic settings, I seem to have
> achieved getting one each to reproduce the differing results I got earlier.
> Other plys may be producing nonsense, but at least it's consistent nonsense.
> I see these inconsistencies as a huge problem.
>  
>  GNU Backgammon  Position ID: gwEAQCoAAAAAAA
>                  Match ID   : cAmgACAAGAAA
>  +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+     O: wwwcars
>  |                  |   | O              O | OOO 2 points
>  |                  |   | O              O | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
> v|                  |BAR|                  |     5 point match (Cube: 1)
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX  On roll
>  |                  |   | X  X  X     X    | XXX 3 points
>  +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+     X: Anterico
>   
> 
> Cube analysis
> 3-ply cubeless equity  +0.386 (Money:  +0.386)
>   0.693 0.000 0.000 - 0.307 0.000 0.000
> Cubeful equities:
> 1. No double            +0.599
> 2. Double, pass         +1.000  ( +0.401)
> 3. Double, take         +0.541  ( -0.059)
> Proper cube action: No double, take (12.8%)
>  
> Rollout details:
> Centered 1-cube:
>   0.728 0.000 0.000 - 0.272 0.000 0.000 CL  +0.455 CF  +0.647
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.001 CF   0.001]
> Player wwwcars owns 2-cube:
>   0.732 0.000 0.000 - 0.268 0.000 0.000 CL  +1.529 CF  +0.847
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.000 CF   0.001]
> Full cubeful rollout with var.redn.
> 20736 games, Mersenne Twister dice gen. with seed 867000880 and quasi-random
> dice
> Play: world class 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
> keep the first 0 0-ply moves and up to 8 more moves within equity 0.16
> Skip pruning for 1-ply moves.
> Cube: 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
>  
>  GNU Backgammon  Position ID: gwEAQCoAAAAAAA
>                  Match ID   : cAmgACAAGAAA
>  +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+     O: gnubg
>  |                  |   | O              O | OOO 2 points
>  |                  |   | O              O | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
>  |                  |   |                  | OO
> v|                  |BAR|                  |     5 point match (Cube: 1)
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX
>  |                  |   |                  | XX  On roll
>  |                  |   | X  X  X     X    | XXX 3 points
>  +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+     X: Neil
>  
> Cube analysis
> 3-ply cubeless equity  +0.420 (Money:  +0.420)
>   0.710 0.000 0.000 - 0.290 0.000 0.000
> Cubeful equities:
> 1. Double, take         +0.677
> 2. Double, pass         +1.000  ( +0.323)
> 3. No double            +0.599  ( -0.077)
> Proper cube action: Double, take
>  
> Rollout details:
> Centered 1-cube:
>   0.728 0.000 0.000 - 0.272 0.000 0.000 CL  +0.455 CF  +0.647
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.001 CF   0.001]
> Player gnubg owns 2-cube:
>   0.735 0.000 0.000 - 0.265 0.000 0.000 CL  +1.549 CF  +0.877
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.000 CF   0.000]
> Full cubeful rollout with var.redn.
> 20736 games, Mersenne Twister dice gen. with seed 867000880 and quasi-random
> dice
> Play: world class 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
> keep the first 0 0-ply moves and up to 8 more moves within equity 0.16
> Skip pruning for 1-ply moves.
> Cube: 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  
>> From:  Michael  Petch <mailto:[email protected]>
>>  
>> To: Neil Robins <mailto:[email protected]>
>>  
>> Cc: [email protected]
>>  
>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:54  PM
>>  
>> Subject: Re: Requested gnubgautorc
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> Interestingly enough, after doing some experiments  (with evaluations, not
>> rollouts), I am unsure there is a ³bug² here. The  position seems very
>> volatile if you factor in potential future cube decisions.  It may just be a
>> fluke that 1 and 2 ply got it right (It didn¹t look deep  enough to see
>> future cube actions). I¹d like to hear feedback from others on  this.
>> 
>> With that in mind I asked GnuBG to tell me (as an experiment)  what the
>> result would be if the checker play evaluations on cube decisions  were
>> cubeless, and except for 0 ply everything came out Double/take.
>> 
>> On  a side note, and I am wondering how other people feel about this. On the
>> Hint  screen (or on analysis pane for analyzed positions) you have the
>> ³0/1/2/3/4²  buttons Each corresponds to a ³cubeful N play evaluation². I
>> have always found  this not be be very intuitive. My expectation would be
>> that ³0/1/2/3/4² would  use the existing settings that you can see with ³...²
>> and simply change the  ply level for cube and checker (and keep all other
>> settings like  cubeful/cubeless/noise/filter the same). I found myself
>> wanting to do cubeless  checker play evaluations on cube decisions and I kept
>> having to click ³...²  change the ply level manually, click OK, then hit the
>> Eval button. My view is  that if I hit those buttons ³0/1/2/3/4² I want to
>> see the difference at each  ply level with respect to  my current eval
>> settings.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On 27/08/09 2:24 PM, "Neil Robins" <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>  
>>> I have same  result as initially on a different computer with 20090612
>>> version.
>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>  
>>>> From:  Michael  Petch <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>  
>>>> To: Neil Robins <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>  
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:05   PM
>>>>  
>>>> Subject: Re: Requested  gnubgautorc
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Something is very bizarre. I¹m going to  try some  experiments with some
>>>> internal features of Gnubg turned  off. But as you  suggested in your post,
>>>> exiting Gnubg and restarting  alters the outcomes. but  then I have found
>>>> sometimes all plies start  giving the right output.
>>>> 
>>>> On  27/08/09 1:43 PM, "Neil Robins"  <[email protected]>   wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>>> Strangely, I  am  yet to see a problem with any other position.
>>>>> 
>>> 
> 

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