A link to something? article? software? did they use alpha-like strategies?
-Joseph On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 11:04, Philippe Michel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 02:07:18PM -0500, Timothy Y. Chow wrote: > > > Also, it's my impression that many people *don't* think this is even a > > worthwhile idea to pursue. Backgammon is already "solved," is what they > > will say. It's true that "AlphaGammon" will surely not crush existing > > bots in a series of (say) 11-point matches. At most I would expect a > > slight advantage. But to me, that is the wrong way to look at the > issue. > > I would like to understand superbackgames for their own sake, even > though > > they arise rarely in practice. Furthermore, if we know that bots don't > > understand superbackgames, then the closer a position gets to being a > > superbackgame, the less we can trust the bot verdict. > > I'm not sure how related it may be, but there is a group of Greek > academics that have published some articles on their work on a bot, > Palamedes, that plays backgammon but also variants that have different > rules and starting positions and lead to positions that would be very > uncommon in backgammon. > > > >
