Re: [Bug-gnubg] Strange bearoff analysis

[Joern Thyssen]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:29:09PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote
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> > Can you try setting up the two resulting positions with gnubg on roll,
> > and post the output from "eval", please?
> 
> Hmm. On my home machine, I get the above sensible results. The odd
> ones come from a copy installed at work. 

Hmm, at work...

> I'm wondering if my bearoff database or weights file is corrupt in
> some way. I had a copy built in March which was installed in
> /usr/local/bin, where I first saw the problem. I also had a recent
> copy which gave the same strange results. The only thing they'd have
> in common are the databases in /usr/local/share. I'll try to look at
> that tomorrow after work, but I begin to think there's something very
> odd there.

Since the position you posted is from the in-memory two-sided bearoff
database and doesn't use neural net, you can check MD5 checksums of the
database. The correct checksums are in the manual from CVS or from
Nardy's website.

Jørn