Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4

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From: Daniel Murphy
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00

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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.

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 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. 

-- 
_______________________
Daniel Murphy
San Francisco
raccoon@cityraccoon.com

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From: raccoon@best.com (Daniel Murphy)
Subject: Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4
Date: 1997/02/22
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