Hello, folks, I received the following bug against the Debian gnubg package. I vaguely recall that this implementation decision was discussed on the mailing list before and that the current behavior is intentional, but I don't recall whether there was discussion of making it a tuneable option or exactly what the rationale was.
Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > 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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
