Opening Rolls

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Opening 51: Rollout

From:   Stick
Address:   checkmugged@yahoo.com
Date:   26 February 2006
Subject:   Opening 5-1 Easy but questions
Forum:   GammOnLine

All the opening moves have already been rolled out this extensively
cubeless. To access these rollouts just visit
http://www.bkgm.com/openings/rollouts.html. You can infer what to play
at certain match scores from the cubeless rollouts, but if I was going
to infer I'd at least prefer the cubeful rollouts. Here, with an opening
5-1 for example, you will not see much difference between the cubeful
and cubeless rollouts. I'd expect to see a bigger difference on an
opening 2-1 cubeful vs. cubeless though.

If we are to generalize for match play from this rollout, it would mean
that a 5-1 should be split at every possible score since it wins the
most games by splitting, wins the most gammons, and loses the least
amount of gammons. This may not be the case and a rollout 'according to
score' would need to verify this information, which I one day may do but
that's very far down the road, as I prefer money play.

Does anyone here still slot or slot at certain match scores? If so, why?
I might consider slotting against a weaker player, hoping to lead the
game into a more complicated setting, but in general I make the split.

As always, feel free to visit my site, http://www.bgonline.org, where I
will be updating things on a daily basis but don't expect to be done for
quite some time still.

1. 24/23 13/8
    P(W) P(WG) P(WBG)   P(L) P(LG) P(LBG)  Cubeless  Cubeful
   .5011 .1381 .0061 - .4989 .1342 .0053   +0.0069   +0.0057  (Equity)
   .0003 .0003 .0001   .0003 .0003 .0001    0.0007    0.0024  (StdErr)

2. 13/8 6/5
    P(W) P(WG) P(WBG)   P(L) P(LG) P(LBG)  Cubeless  Cubeful
   .4979 .1374 .0058 - .5021 .1373 .0074   -0.0058   -0.0041  (Equity)
   .0003 .0003 .0001   .0003 .0003 .0001    0.0008    0.0021  (StdErr)

Full cubeful rollout with var. redn.  46656 games, Mersenne Twister dice
gen. with seed 988950592 and quasi-random dice.
Play: 2-ply cubeful prune [world class] keep the first 0 0-ply moves and
up to 12 more moves within equity 0.16. Skip pruning for 1-ply moves.
Cube: 2-ply cubeful prune [world class]
 
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Opening 52: Merits of splitting  (Peter Bell, Apr 1995) 
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