🚀 go-pugleaf

In <5e4mi8$ij6@netnews.hinet.net>, geo1716@ms5.hinet.net writes:
>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,
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>>
>>Bob Selfinger
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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!

Rob Hutchens