--- In [email protected], "John O'Laughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use many plies when the game is far enough along that a 2 ply sim's > iterations would mix pre-endgame and endgame or endgame and game-over > situations. If there's a chance that the last move in an iteration > will empty the bag, use many plies.
Still not quite clear on this. So let me ask this. While simming my Saratoga games I tried to use that empty-the-bag heuristic to determine when to switch to many plys, and what I found was that sometimes the results did not pass the sanity check. For example, my play would be shown to give up 40 equity points and then when I switched back to 2-ply it would only give up five. What accounts for such a great disparity in valuation?
