Murat's Backgammon Page

Experiments 21 through 30


Experiment 21:

This test was done to see what would happen if the mutant always made the second best checker move at 3-ply. All other checker and cube decisions for both sides are made at 3-ply by the bot.
Experiment 21
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Experiment 21


Experiment 22:

This test is simply the cubeless version of Experiment 21, however it was done not just out of curiosy but to support one of my arguments to debunk a certain "cube skill" fallacy.
Experiment 22
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Experiment 23:

This is "double mutants" version of Experiment 21 with checker play mutant also making mutant cube plays. It was done to support one of my arguments to debunk a certain "cube skill" fallacy.
Experiment 23
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Experiment 24:

This test was done to see what would happen if the mutant made the worst checker play at his first turn at 3-ply. All other checker and cube decisions for both sides are made at 3-ply by the bot.
Experiment 24
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Experiment 24


Experiment 25:

This test is simply the cubeless version of Experiment 24, however it was done not just out of curiosy but to support one of my arguments to debunk a certain "cube skill" fallacy.
Experiment 25
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Experiment 26:

This is "double mutants" version of Experiment 24 with checker play mutant also making mutant cube plays. It was done to support one of my arguments to debunk a certain "cube skill" fallacy.
Experiment 26
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Experiment 27:

In this experiment, GnuBG 3-ply checker and 3-ply cube skill, (strong bot), played 20,000 cubeful money games against GnuBG 1-ply checker and 3-ply cube skill (weak bot).
Experiment 27
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Experiment 28:

This is the cubeless version of Experiment 27, where GnuBG 3-ply checker skill, (strong bot), played 20,000 cubeless money games against GnuBG 1-ply checker skill (weak bot).
Experiment 28
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Experiment 29:

These two experiments are different skill versions of Experiments 27 and 28, reported as one since they were run from the CLI without scripts, thus without session and game files and/or stats.
Experiment 29
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Experiment 29