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and subject line Re: Bug#659494: [Bug-gnubg] Bug#659494: Resigns more points
than necessary when fewer points would still result in opponent win
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Package: gnubg
Version: 0.90+20120127-1
When gnubg knows it will lose the current game, and knows that doing so
will provide its opponent with enough points to win the match, gnubg
will resign a gammon or backgammon if those still have a non-zero
possibility of occurring, rather than just resigning a normal game. For
example, in a 7-point match in which the doubling cube had reached 8,
once I had enough checkers borne off to guarantee a win, gnubg offered
to resign a gammon. Checking the probabilities afterward, gnubg had a
100% chance of losing, but only a 0.4% chance of losing a gammon.
I assume its offer to resign more points than necessary occurred because
gnubg considers all match losses equal in value. With all else equal,
gnubg should not throw away more points than necessary; that would make
gnubg's play more natural, and avoid making a loss seem unnecessarily
overwhelming.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnubg depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii gnubg-data 0.90+20120127-1
ii libc6 2.13-26
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.2
ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.28-3
ii libcanberra0 0.28-3
ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.1-1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.11.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.11.2-1
ii libgmp10 2:5.0.3+dfsg-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.7-1
ii libgtkglext1 1.2.0-2
ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2
ii libpng12-0 1.2.46-4
ii libpython2.7 2.7.2-13
ii libreadline6 6.2-8
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-3
gnubg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnubg suggests:
pn kbackgammon <none>
-- debconf information excluded
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Control: tags -1 wontfix
Closing as wontfix per upstream's reply saying that this is unimportant in
match play and isn't something they anticipate changing.
--
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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