Yes. But there is the question of how easy it is to "navigate" to those positions. can you reliably get to those positions against a bot and win from their ignorance? I have my doubts.
(written by someone who spend a very long time trying to train a net for backgames, and failed). -Joseph On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 08:21, Timothy Y. Chow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, Nikos Papachristou wrote: > > The moral: If one needs to experience the full power of the bg bots one > > needs to change the default settings which are configured for the > > average user. Whatever errors bots occasionally make at their > > evaluations, they make up by searching deeper. > > I agree that changing the default settings helps, but your second > statement is wildly optimistic. You got lucky in this one particular > position, but I can easily produce many positions where the bots are > obviously confused no matter what search depth or move filter or rollout > setting you use. The easiest examples concern superbackgames and snake > rolling. Put five black checkers on each of the 6pt, 4pt, 2pt of black's > home board, and put five white checkers on each of the 5pt, 3pt, and 1pt > of black's home board (so it's a "superbackgame"). Now ask for the cube > action. Whatever setting you use, you'll get nonsense. > > Or try putting 2 white checkers on each of black's 1pt, 2pt, 3pt, 4pt, > 5pt, 6pt, and 3 white checkers on black's 7pt. Put two black checkers > somewhere else on the board. Now sit back and laugh as you watch the bot > try to roll white's prime around the board. > > Tim > >
