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From: landers@vulcan.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does Backgammon Cheat? (was RE: Does Reversi Cheat?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.202849.22686@vulcan.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 20:28:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.152329.1720@raven.alaska.edu>
Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University
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In article <1991Jun25.152329.1720@raven.alaska.edu> angab@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
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>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.

I've found this to be true with many human v. computer games involving dice
rolls.  Perhaps its user perception, perhaps devious programming, 
perhaps a common algorthim published in IEEE years ago....

Metaphysically:  Can a computer cheat?
Philosophacally:  Why write a game program that cheats?
		  (unless you're watching a sucker play)


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