[Bug-gnubg] Re: How good is gnubg?

[Mueller Achim]

Hi Adam,

we have no significant numbers regarding bot duells. There was a "bot  
shootout",
a set of 3000 25p matches each between Snowie, GNU Backgammon, BGBlitz  
and Jellyfish
set up by Torsten Schoop once, but I have no details regarding the  
settings.

In my personal opinion Snowie and Gnubg are about equal (with  
different strengths and
weaknesses), BGBBlitz strongly catching up, maybe also on the same  
level now.

Jellyfish didn't participate at the Computer Olympiads because the  
company doesn't exist
anymore afaik. I can't speak for Snowie (or Oasya).

Ciao

Achim

Am 14.10.2008 um 05:02 schrieb Adam Chalcraft:

> Firstly, thanks for such a great program.
> I'm sure that the folks at gnubg headquarters run tests where gnubg,  
> Snowy
> and Jellyfish are left overnight to fight it out. So I'm sure you  
> know by
> now what, for example, is the expected amount of money that gnubg  
> makes or
> loses when playing a single money game for $1 a point against Snowy,  
> when
> they are both allowed to average 1 second per move on the same  
> machine, or
> something like that. Why not publish these statistics? I note that  
> Snowy and
> Jellyfish don't enter the Computer Games Olympiads, so I'm guessing  
> that
> they run these simulations, and they know that they would probably  
> lose. Or
> maybe it's very close, and they think that they would lose more  
> sales by
> losing than they would gain by winning, since their measure is real  
> money.
> Adam.