Re: [Bug-gnubg] idea for faster rollout cube decision

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 03 Aug 2003 (01:39 +0200), Robert-Jan Veldhuizen wrote:
> Quite often I find myself rolling out a cube decision where I'm only 
> interested in one of the two rows of results. Sometimes the double is clear 
> and it's just the take decision I'm interested in (bottom row). At other 
> times it's a trivial pass but might be too good and I'm only interested in 
> the No Double equity (top row).
> 
> It would be nice to have a feature to just do either of the two rollouts 
> peformed by a rollout cube decision. In the Annotation window, I could 
> imagine a button for "rollout no double only" for the doubler's turn, and 
> if there's an actual double, a button for "rollout double/take only" for 
> the taker/passer's turn.
> 
> Especially for close too good decisions (but huge passes) this would gain a 
> lot of time (more than a factor 2 even) as they'll often be passed later 
> anyway, sometimes right on the next turn. Right now though the rollout 
> would spend a lot of time with the cube being taken and the game being 
> played until the end or until the very unlikely recube/drop.

That sounds reasonable to me. Previously that wasn't an option, as
cube decisions were done with ND/DT at the lowest level - there was no
way to say just roll out this half of the decision.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden