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Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4

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From: Stephen Turner
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
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David Zuidema wrote:
> 
> >Oh and there was alot of net speculation that the damn thing cheats! I'm
> >not a backgammon slouch but it could trash me consistently. And it always
> >seemed to get the die rolls it needed to cover an otherwise vulnerable
> >position...
> 
> I'm glad that someone else thinks the die rolls were too good to be
> true ! I thought I was going paranoid. :-)
> 

Good players get more good rolls than bad players. What's new?

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From: Stephen Turner <sret1@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4
Date: 1997/02/12
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