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From: bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard)
Subject: Re: Does Backgammon Cheat? (was RE: Does Reversi Cheat?)
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 15:56:32 GMT

angab@acad2.alaska.edu (BUSCH GERALD A) writes:

>Gerry Busch

>If you mean the backgammon game from cica, I'd say yes, it does cheat.  It 
>rolls doubles 4 to 6 times more often than I do.  Others who have the game
>say the same thing.

Last night in a trial run of 92 pairs of rolls it appears the computers 
tends to roll higher rolls as well as more doubles than the player.  This 
is not near enough observations to generate statistically significant results, 
but the best that could be done at one sitting.  I will take 10 or so samples 
of about the same size and report back.


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