Re: GNU backgammon - random starting point?

[Murat K]

On 12/1/2023 8:54 AM, Ian Shaw via "Bug reports for and general discussion 
about GNU Backgammon. wrote:

> The interactive rollout is a nice idea. Would it be too hard to add the human 
> player into the skill settings for both players.

I think "interactive rollouts" will be very useful also but if one or both 
players are human,
wouldn't that mean all skill settings would be blank/unknown (to each other 
and/or to the bot
player)?

While talking about this, I want to reiterate my suggestion for "rollouts with 
random cube as
well as random checker decisions". This would simply be an "absolute maximum 
noise" setting.
It could be triggered by a negative noise value or player name "RANDOM", etc. 
Implementing it
would be trivially easy by adding a line of code to skip the determining of the 
best cube or
checker play and simply pick them at random.


As I had pointed out to Carsten, this would give users the capability of 
finding out how an
"unbiased bot" would have played some positions at least one position at a time.

MK