Re: [Bug-gnubg] Importance of pipcount

[Joern Thyssen]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:45:10PM +0200, address@hidden wrote
>
> I actually toyed with the idea of testing it out by hacking GNUBG to
> get
> a wrong pipcount  input to its neural net and letting  it play against
> a
> non-disabled version  of itself and  measure the effect.

A few comments on this:

* as far as I remember the pip count isn't used at all as input for
the neural nets

* if the pip count had indeed been an input we could have found the
expected change in the cubeless money equity by using 'eval' which
prints the derivative of the cubeless money equity. This is useful for
finding out the effect of changing a given input, i.e., 
delta equity ~= dE/dI * (delta input).

Jørn