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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
