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In message <33019D58.1CB9@cam.ac.uk> - Stephen Turner <sret1@cam.ac.uk>
writes:
:>
:>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. :-)
:>> 

I have been suspecting that it cheats very badly at times but not always.
Maybe it looks at the date or some other thing to decide when it will
cheat.  Some days I can beat it every time, but on some days it will roll
exactly what it needs again and again and it is just about unbeatable in
this mode.
 
:>
:>Good players get more good rolls than bad players. What's new?
:>
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Bob Selfinger
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