Frivolity aside, I would guess that 99.96% would have to be a rounding off type error. With only one tile in the bag I would think that the next lowest percentage below 100% would have to be 87.5% (or less).
Albert Hahn ----- Original Message ----- From: David B.Lewis To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 3:51 AM Subject: [quackle] seeing possible future moves Toward the end of a game, I thought I had made a play that shut down the last bingo lane and assured a win. When I load the position into Quackle and ask Championship Player about the situation, it suggests a few different moves with a 100% win but not the move that I chose. When I specifically enter that move and then simulate, the moves that Quackle had suggested show up as winning 100% of the time, and the move that I chose shows up as winning 99.96% of the time. For the life of me, I can't figure out what could happen in that 0.04% of the situations. There was only 1 tile in the bag at the time, so I've tried all of my opponent's possible racks, and nothing turns up that is a win. Is there any way to get at the information that Quackle uses during a simulation, so that I could either determine that a mistake was made on Quackle's part (and that my move was a sure thing) or find out just what terrific move my opponent may have had? Thx in advance. PS: ideally, I'd like Quackle to say "Great move, but you missed the remote possibility of your opponent's disconnected thirteen here". On a related note, in a previous post, I thought it would also be useful to show where moves played, so that I could see, for example, that 75% of my opponent's responses to my move use a hook that I had opened up or a hot-spot that I had created or a spot I didn't block.
