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Article #19Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4
From: geo1716
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
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In <5dtqgv$3l2@news1.ee.net>, selfinger@ee.net (Bob Selfinger) writes: >In message <33019D58.1CB9@cam.ac.uk> - Stephen Turner <sret1@cam.ac.uk> >writes: >:> >:>David Zuidema wrote: >:>> >:>> >Oh and there was alot of net speculation that the damn thing cheats! I'm >:>> >not a backgammon slouch but it could trash me consistently. And it always >:>> >seemed to get the die rolls it needed to cover an otherwise vulnerable >:>> >position... >:>> >:>> I'm glad that someone else thinks the die rolls were too good to be >:>> true ! I thought I was going paranoid. :-) >:>> > >I have been suspecting that it cheats very badly at times but not always. >Maybe it looks at the date or some other thing to decide when it will >cheat. Some days I can beat it every time, but on some days it will roll >exactly what it needs again and again and it is just about unbeatable in >this mode. > >:> >:>Good players get more good rolls than bad players. What's new? >:> >:>-- >:>Stephen Turner sret1@cam.ac.uk http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ >:> Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, >:> 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB, England Tel.: +44 1223 337955 >:> "Collection of rent is subject to Compulsive Competitive Tendering" Cam. City > >Bob Selfinger >****************************************************** >Views expressed here may not actually be views. >****************************************************** >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,ad8ee6c50458a2f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10e320,ad8ee6c50458a2f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e320,public X-Google-Thread: 109125,ad8ee6c50458a2f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid109125,public From: geo1716@ms5.hinet.net Subject: Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4 Date: 1997/02/15 Message-ID: <5e4mi8$ij6@netnews.hinet.net> X-Deja-AN: 218990417 References: <5d3rr4$aa8@flash.anu.edu.au> <32F6FF55.362E@ibm.net> <5d8083$ldf@lori.zippo.com> <32FF20A5.292A@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <01bc182f$5ab0d880$132ee926@dlane> <1997Feb11.184452.2170@delta.process.com> <33014410.20749346@NewsServer.cc.monash.edu.au> <33019D58.1CB9@cam.ac.uk> <5dtqgv$3l2@news1.ee.net> Organization: DCI HiNet Reply-To: geo1716@ms5.hinet.net Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.games,aus.computers.os2,rec.games.backgammon