[skorchev]

ruffed low a diamond in obvious situation ... cost me about $10

http://tinyurl.com/633eytk

[cloa513]

skorchev, on 2011-March-13, 17:00, said:

ruffed low a diamond in obvious situation ... cost me about $10

http://tinyurl.com/633eytk

Especially when ruffing high no matter what the layout would have cost nothing- so much for its simulations.

[ahydra]

Yea, first priority should surely be to see if there's a no-loss play?

ahydra

[barmar]

I don't think GIB knows how to find no-loss plays. It would have to deal out all the billions and billions of combinations of opponents' cards and simulate the play of each of them.

[ahydra]

Nah - for a start, use of "touching cards are equal" and similar rules would cut down the number of possibilities quite significantly.

Besides, in a situation like this, you say

- 3 trumps left, i have KQJ10

- assume the worst, I need 3 to draw trumps

- thus I can afford to use the K/Q/10 to ruff

- ruffing high never loses, whereas ruffing low can

- therefore I ruff high

It's only when GIB suspects he might lose trump control or whatever that he needs to start simulating.

ahydra

[barmar]

You're talking about replacing its currently simulation-based algorithm with artificial intelligence. That's a complete redesign of the program.