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robinz
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autopostal and bot_Hippo
« on: Jan 5th, 2013, 7:11am » |
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Hi all,
I'm just wondering why my latest autopostal seems to be against the aforementioned bot, even though I've been playing autopostals continuously for over 18 months or so (the initial e-mail said I'd be playing a bot as it is my first autopostal, which is definitely not true).
Said e-mail also assured me the bot would move quickly, but it took around half an hour for its first move, and now about 2 hours (and still counting) for its second.
I'm not annoyed, particularly (the bot is dangerously close in rating to me, so I am seriously worried about losing if it's going to take several hours over each move  ) - just puzzled...
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Re: autopostal and bot_Hippo
« Reply #1 on: Jan 5th, 2013, 8:45am » |
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on Jan 5th, 2013, 7:11am, robinz wrote:Hi all,
I'm just wondering why my latest autopostal seems to be against the aforementioned bot, even though I've been playing autopostals continuously for over 18 months or so (the initial e-mail said I'd be playing a bot as it is my first autopostal, which is definitely not true).
Said e-mail also assured me the bot would move quickly, but it took around half an hour for its first move, and now about 2 hours (and still counting) for its second.
I'm not annoyed, particularly (the bot is dangerously close in rating to me, so I am seriously worried about losing if it's going to take several hours over each move ) - just puzzled... |
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This is because I set bot_Hippo to play in autopostals as regular players does. And you are close enough to it's rating to play it. The bot plays usually in 8 hours per turn. If nothing strange happens it should play in 16 hours (it plays 6 autopostals, but thinking in parallel on at most 3 boards).
Unfortunately whenever autoupdate is run, I shoud manually finish the restart ... this is the main reason why it is sometimes late.
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robinz
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Re: autopostal and bot_Hippo
« Reply #2 on: Jan 5th, 2013, 8:48am » |
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OK, no problem - it just means that the automated e-mail I got was wrong 
8 hours per move, eh? Now I really am worried 
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Re: autopostal and bot_Hippo
« Reply #3 on: Jan 5th, 2013, 9:01am » |
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on Jan 5th, 2013, 8:48am, robinz wrote:OK, no problem - it just means that the automated e-mail I got was wrong
8 hours per move, eh? Now I really am worried |
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Don't be, the bot tries to replace it's lack of knowledge by a lot of computing, but it computes it slowly and arimaa was designed to have such huge branching factor that it does not see deep enough;).
Yes, the e-mail shoud say "trivial bot" to declare a difference .
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