Re: [Bug-gnubg] EPC (Trice) and other counts

[Adi Kadmon]

Thanks motiv4u for your useful answer. Thanks again as well to Philippe Michel and Ian Shaw - you all offer a lot of useful explanations and material to study.

 

By the way, aided by the rather "ragged" automatic Google translation into English, I did understand precisely most of the material in the Danish paper referred to by Philippe about EPC and the approximate formula, admittadly except for the "adjustments" to the formula. If anyone (Danish or else) succeeded in understanding that bit too - I'd be glad to be informed.

 

-- Adi

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:13 AM, motiv4u <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Adi Kadmon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I'd like very much to have the following information:
>
> (1) What is GNUbg's formula for calculating "EPC"/"Trice count" of bearoff
> positions?
>
> (2) Is that formula, or any approximation thereof, practically usable by a
> human player during a real game?
>
> (3) Is the EPC/Trice count, if calculated precisely, actually more "correct"
> than, for instance, Ward count or Keith count, for cube decisions in bearoff
> positions?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Adi
>

You find Trice's EPC count on bkg.com (among lots of other things)
http://www.bkgm.com/articles/EffectivePipCount/

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