Forum Archive : GNU Backgammon

Rollout settings From:   geoff arnold Address:   area51@tidni.com Date:   17 April 2007 Subject:   Gnu Questions.. Forum:   BGonline I have used Snowie for years as my main option for analyzing match's and rollouts etc. I have had Gnu as well for years just mainly as another option. GNU for me is more effective speed wise in terms of delivering a fast result and fairly accurate etc.. My question is: What settings do you use for rollouts with gnu? What MET should I use? I currently have it set as G11. BTW I have been to http://www.bkgm.com/gnu/AllAboutGNU.html and have seen his suggestions. I am just wondering if these are accurate enough in your opinion. Daniel Murphy  writes: My default rollouts settings that I use for 95% of my rollouts are: * Trials -- depends on how close the plays are and how accurate I want the equities to be. You can judge from the evaluations how many trials might be needed. I run a minimum of 108 trials and usually 324, 648, 1296 or more, but I would emphasize that you do not need to run 1296 trials of every rollout and it's really not necessary that the number of trials is divisible by 36. In a rollout I'm looking for a JSD of 3. Once I get that, more trials are extremely unlikely to change the decision and will only make the equities more accurate. * Truncation OFF * Evaluation for later plies OFF * Stop when result is accurate OFF * Stop rollouts of multiple ... OFF * Cubeful ON * Variance reduction ON * Quasi-random dice ON * Rollout as initial position OFF * Cube decisions same settings OFF * Use same settings for both players ON * Use player0 setting for truncation point ON * Checker play: 2-ply * Cube: 2-ply * Use neural net pruning ON * Cubeful checker evaluation ON * Move filter NARROW * MET = G11 Albert's suggestions at AllAboutGNU are reasonable. I agree that "0-ply checker play is indeed extremely strong" and since it is fast it gets results in good time but since I usually weigh accuracy more heavily than speed I do not agree that 0-ply is "usually ideal for full rollouts." I don't use 0-ply checker play except for simple noncontact positions and never use 0-ply cube. Even in the simplest of contact positions, like a bearoff against checkers on the roof, 0-ply and 2-ply GWCs may differ by 1% or more. Albert's "third setting" recommendations are o.k. The Ians' rollouts with "separate evaluations" enabled changing to 0-ply checker play after 12 plies have usually gotten good results compared to full 2-ply rollouts but if the position is likely to be complex after 12 plies then a full 2-ply rollout would be a better choice. I have found that there is very little difference in results between 2-ply with Narrow, Large (world class) and Huge (supremo) move filters.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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Quasi-random dice in rollouts  (Ian Shaw, Mar 2004) 

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Rollout settings  (geoff arnold+, Apr 2007) 

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Rollout settings  (Ian Dunstan, Aug 2003) 

Rollout settings for the impatient  (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, June 2004) 

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Setting skill level  (Jim Segrave, Apr 2004) 

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