Re: [Bug-gnubg] Analysis/Evaluation Settings

[Holger]

At 12:21 21.01.2003 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:10:45PM +0100, Holger wrote
>> And in order to understand how this speed option works: Could you relate on
>> this, especially in conjunction with move filters? Are the settings for the
>> move filters then halved for the next ply, or so?
>
>The speed option has nothing to do with move filters.
>
>Speed option:
>
>A n-ply evaluation is an average over 21 n-1 ply evaluations.
>A reduced evaluation averages over a reduced set of dice, e.g., a 33%
>speed evaluation averages over 7 n-1 ply evaluations.
>
>Move filters:
>
>The move filters is just an generalization of the search space you know
>from Snowie and previous versions of gnubg. With a search space you
>typically haves the search tolerance and the search candidates. However,
>with the move filters you specify everything yourself.
[snip]

Thanks for the explanation.

How are the dice combinations determined? Is there (can there be?) any try
to reduce the error introduced by this by selecting appropriate dice
combinations?

Regards,

        Holger