Because Gnugb plays based on the score and cube value (When in Match play).
When it evaluates it doesn¹t blindly use the 2 sided bearoff database
because the static values the 2 sided database don¹t account for score by
itself. Jankowski¹s forumlas are applied to the values that  come from the
DB and the eval continues. The bigger question is, is Jankowski¹s formula at
fault in how we use it.

I don¹t see this as a bug still. But it doesn¹t mean the methodology has
been verified.

On 04/09/09 10:56 PM, "Neil Robins" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It has occurred to me that in a position like this previously discussed one:
>  
> http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=47213
>  
>  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
>  
> The MWC chance following Double/Take is directly obtainable from the Two-Sided
> Database. Doubling produces an automatic redouble so the situation is in
> effect cubeless.
> The DB gives Cubeless equity: +0.4707.
>  
> Therefore where x = MWC/100
> x - (1 - x) =  0.4707
> x = 0.73535
> MWC = 73.535% after Double/Take
> This is in very close agreement with the XG rollout.
>  
> Is there any reason GNU analysis cannot use this exact method?
>  
> I feel I still get complete nonsense here with the latest windows build.
>  
> 7-ply cubeless MWC  67.39% (Money:  +0.387)
>   0.694 0.000 0.000 - 0.306 0.000 0.000
> Cubeful equities:
> 1. No double            70.06%
> 2. Double, pass         75.08%  (  5.01%)
> 3. Double, take         69.36%  ( -0.70%)
> Proper cube action: No double, take (12.3%)
>  
> It also sure worries me to get rollout results that are quite certainly wrong.
>  
> Rollout details:
> Centered 1-cube:
>   0.728 0.000 0.000 - 0.272 0.000 0.000 CL  68.25% CF  70.66%
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.00% CF   0.00%]
> Player gnubg owns 2-cube:
>   0.732 0.000 0.000 - 0.268 0.000 0.000 CL  81.71% CF  73.16%
>  [0.000 0.000 0.000 - 0.000 0.000 0.000 CL   0.00% CF   0.00%]
> Full cubeful rollout with var.redn.
> 129600 games, Mersenne Twister dice gen. with seed 865036646 and quasi-random
> dice
> Play:  2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
> keep the first 0 0-ply moves and up to 8 more moves within equity 0.12
> Skip pruning for 1-ply moves.
> Cube: 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
> 
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