Re: [Bug-gnubg] Why is odd ply equity always lower?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:24:38PM +0200, Nis wrote
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> Only relevant for cube decisions?
> 
> The wrong estimations of equity is mainly a problem of absolute equities. 
> As Joseph has pointed out, chequerplay relies almost solely on the relative 
> equities of positions.
> 
> Thus a fix should only "need" to be applied for cube decisions (and cubeful 
> chequerplay? Someone help me here)
> 
> So we might want to start using reduced evaluation settings for cube 
> decisions

Haven't seen your patch yet, I think it may be much easier if we add an
option to evalcontext that enables this. The evaluation routines doesn't
really know if it's evaluating a cube decision or chequer play decision.

Jørn

BTW, I'd be happy to see your patch! If it's not too large you can
probably post it on the list.