Re: [Bug-gnubg] Race database and bearoff DB

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:42:48PM -0300, Albert Silver wrote
> Well, as long as the discussion of the day is the bot's development,
> I'll take advantage and pass on the result of a long discussion I had
> with Kazaross at GG. We were discussing GNUbg in general, and he said he
> had an idea that he thought would significantly improve the bot's play:
> race and bearoff databases.
>  
> He noted that in Snowie 2 and 3, there was a cubeless race DB that went
> up to the 10 point and that took up 294 MB. He said that in his opinion
> a DB that went up to the midpoint would improve the bot's play
> enormously.

This is on the TODO list already, but noone seems to work on it. 

An interesting side note is that Hugh Sconyers has offered to let us use
some of his bear-off databases (I assume he means that we can
interface to his database -- not distribuing them with gnubg).

For other people who do not want to purchase Sconyers' CDs we could
supply a program that could generate some smaller bear-off databases.
I don't think we have web-space and band-width for people to download
300+ MB files...

Are there any volunteers for doing this?

Jørn

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