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In article <raccoon.856599064@shellx>, raccoon@best.com says...
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>gowest@ibm.net writes:
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>>You're right the damn thing cheats!  I'm a fairly competent backgammon
>>player and the system has the most unbelievable luck! So I cheat right
>>back using manual dice! 
>
>TD-Gammon's creator, Gerry Tesauro, has affirmed publicly, and more than
>once, that the TD-Gammon program does not cheat. That's good enough for
>me.

I'm sure it doesn't "cheat" (or at least I'm sure Gerry didn't write it
to cheat), but it gets the most amazing luck to pull it out of weak positions.
And I never seem to be able to get that level of luck going for me.

>Considering that Gerry's program plays backgammon on an expert level, it's
>not surprising that a merely "fairly competent" player would have to cheat
>to beat it.

No, it doesn't ALWAYS play at expert level (at least the version I have).
But it still gets lucky. :-)

>No one I've ever known has been able to *examine* his or her game and
>become a good player without first learning to blame poor play, not bad
>luck, for their losses.  Some never learn this.  That's ok. I happen to
>like fish. 

A good backgammon player can still be defeated by the dice. It just seems
that TD-GAMMON always gets the dice on its side. And a good backgammon
player will NEVER lose if they have the die on their side!

>Daniel Murphy

DDA

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