Jason and John, I have a few questions about possible features. I don't know whether they're possible, or even useful, since I don't know as much about the game as you guys, and I don't know anything about programming. But here they are:
1) Can it be programmed so that you just enter the whole game and then it spits out an analysis for you, play by play? It occurs to me that this would be a huge improvement over Maven, which only lets you sim one position at a time. What a pain. 2) Is there anyway the simmer can breakdown differences in equity? How much of the 5 point improvement of this play over that one is because it doesn't put a vowel next to a TWL? How much is because of a superior leave? Etc. 3) Finally, I think it would be really neat if the simming engine could tell you when a certain play by you our your opponent follows your candidate play a large percentage of the time. This might be particularly useful in the endgame. For example, if I drop 1 tile to fish, what percent of the time do I bingo? I guess this would require an inference engine to be accurate, since the opponent is likely to respond by closing lines. How often does a certain setup work? Is play X a mistake because 85% of the time opponent can respond with QAT for 60? (That would have to be a pretty dumb play!) Anyway, I'm not sure whether any of these ideas make any sense or are feasible or useful, but I'm very curious to hear what you guys think of them. Thanks again for creating this; it's tremendous. Mike Eldeiry (who doesn't want to get kicked off this list for not signing his name!) PS Why can't we see the messages that people have posted here? I don't get it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/0liolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quackle/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
