Re: [Bug-gnubg] snowie equivalent bug?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:39:44PM +0100, Tore Fredriksen wrote
> 
> Problem description : I recently had 7 matches recorded from a live
> tournament and analyzed by snowie 4 and then my own gnubg. With
> snowie4 my errorate was X.6 while with gnubg the snowie equivalent
> errorrate was X.1
> 
> I initially thought this to be because I have a bias towards gnubg
> playing style since I don't have a copy of snowie4, but then I noticed
> a worrisome thing. Snowie4 lists a smaller amount of total moves in
> each match than gnubg, and that might just be the reason that my
> errorate was estimated lower by gnubg than by snowie4.In that case
> this should be considered a bug. Examples from 6 of the matches :
> Snowie 4 number of moves -351,329,174, 240,213,375. Gnubg number of
> moves- 385,374,193,269,232,413.

Snowie does not include moves made after breaking contact, due to, I
think, bad play in bear-in and/or bearoff.

I was aware of this bug, but I don't see an easy way to fix it.

J?rn

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