Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!midway!gsbsun!bdh From: bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Does Reversi cheat? Message-ID: <1991Jun24.170410.28034@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 17:04:10 GMT References: <7uFw49w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 17 mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) writes: >> If I place a disk at the end of a line >> which contains both disks of my color and of MS, then all MS disks are >> flipped which lie between the disk I just played and the *nearest* >> disk of mine. However, when MS does the same thing, then all my disks >> are flipped which lie between the last disk played and the *furthest* >> MS disk. >My version doesn't do this. It's version 3.0, on beginner level. Does Backgammon cheat? It (the computer) seems to get doubles awefully conveniently. > -- "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and talent."