🚀 go-pugleaf

David D'Antonio wrote:
> 
> In article <raccoon.856599064@shellx>, raccoon@best.com says...
> >
> >gowest@ibm.net writes:
> >
> >>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.

I bought a real (actual, physical) backgammon board to see if I'd have
better luck against a real (actual, physical) person.  The actual person
cheats just as much as TD-GAMMON does!  There's no way anyone can throw
that many double sixes!

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John Abraham
Urban Modelling and Transportation Planning
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