Jason--
Thanx much. I don't use Championship Player in the early game, so this
gives me courage (I use the French pronunciation with the accent on the second
syllable).
Stu
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Katz-Brown
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [quackle] Another Quackle poor choice
"Ask Championship Player" returns ERE almost every time, so I think
it's okay :-)
Also, it's quite an accomplishment of Quackle's leave values to put
REE in the top 6.
Cheers
--Jason
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Another example when Quackle missed an obvious clear choice. Set to
> OWL06, it generated the best choice for the opening rack ADEEERR as REREAD
> at 8g, A quick inspection told me that the best leave from that rack would
> be ADER, so the play should involve EER. REE was far down the list of
> choices, and I decided that ERE at 8h would be best, to avoid both a vowel
> next to a DLS and front hooks on the DWS row, and typed it in to sim. The
> "Generate Choices" option placed it 11th, about half a point below the 10th
> choice, and a valuation some 3 points lower than REE, which I
> don'tunderstand at all.
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> In simulation, ERE quickly rose to the top,.so I stopped after a
> little over 500 iterations and proceeded with the game. Does this signal
> that some adjustment of the tile values, etc., of Quackle is needed?
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> Stu Goldman
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