Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4

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From: John Clements
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <5dsvjv$umu@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com>,
Nick Cassimatis  <NickC@!ibm.net> wrote:
>
>Fight back!  Put it on Manual Dice Entry whenever the computer cheats!
>

Hold on... if you get to re-roll the dice whenever the computer gets a really
really good roll, shouldn't the _computer_ get to re-roll the dice whenever
_you_ get a really good roll?

(BTW, think motive... what possible motive could there be for a programmer
to write a backgammon program that cheats?)

john

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From: clements@taw.cs.princeton.edu (John Clements)
Subject: Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4
Date: 1997/02/13
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