Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4

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From: David Zuidema
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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On 11 Feb 97 18:44:51 -0500, dantonio@process.com (David D'Antonio)
wrote:

>In article <01bc182f$5ab0d880$132ee926@dlane>, DLane@ContactPt.com says...
>>
>>Is a version that will work with Warp 3 available?
>>
>>Anybody know?
>
>The version that one could get for fee from IBM's ftp server works fine
>under Warp 3 FP17. Actually, that's no quite true as the colour of the
>pieces got wierd with the ATI MACH64 drivers I was using.
>
>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. :-)

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From: David.Zuidema@sci.monash.edu.au (David Zuidema)
Subject: Re: TD-GAMMON with OS/2 WARP 4
Date: 1997/02/12
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