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02-05-2020 , 02:20 PM

4Seasons

stranger

Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 3

Hello Community. At first, sorry for my english. It isnt the best

I have been playing the gaame for a few years now, only against real opponents, but i have never dealt with it analytically. Now I'm playing against GNU. My subjective perception is that GNU is on fire. Throws everything it takes to emerge as a winner from any situation, however adverse. As i said, this is a purely subjektive perception. So a question about GNU
How can i check the happinnes factor?
What options do i have to determine this?

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02-08-2020 , 09:36 AM

4Seasons

stranger

Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 3

Everythink solved. Was just an extraordinary series of throws.

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02-08-2020 , 03:42 PM

steven_nevets

newbie

Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 25

I know, I know - we only remember the miracle throws against us, we can roll our own dice, the code is there for all to examine, and on and on. Just prepare for GNU to roll these "extraordinary series" an extraordinary amount of the time, 4Seasons, and your happiness factor to be gutted.

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02-11-2020 , 12:56 PM

4Seasons

stranger

Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 3

I do not know whether google translated your text well or whether it is up to me that I may misunderstand the meaning. I do not question that GNU is tactically far superior to me. But I had lost 11 matches to 7 in a row, often in almost "hopeless situations" for gnu. The way GNU plays, I can hardly imagine that there is a world-class player who wins more than 50% of the matches at the highest gnu level. But that too is only a subjective assessment. Definitely good training. At this point I would like to thank the developers for such a great free tool.

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02-11-2020 , 05:26 PM

plm

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 44

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I can hardly imagine that there is a world-class player who wins more than 50% of the matches at the highest gnu level. But that too is only a subjective assessment.

This is not even close. A top world class player wouldn't win much more than 45% of 7-points matches on average.

It is not subjective either : the play of gnubg (or XG which is even slightly stronger) and of the top players have been abundantly analyzed, their average error rates can be computed and from that it is possible to estimate winning chances depending of the match lengths.

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