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Showdown in Texas

From:   Chuck Bower
Address:   bower@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu
Date:   26 July 1997
Subject:   Re: Some positions...
Forum:   rec.games.backgammon
Google:   5rd47i$3le$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu

Chuck Bower wrote:
> I heard
> through the grapevine (danger! danger!) that recently Malcolm Davis
> conducted an "experiment" in Texas.  Nick Ballard and Mike Senkiewicz
> each played a 300 game (REAL) money session against JFv3.0 level-7.
> Harvey Huie backed Jellyfish in the $200/point one-on-one contest.
> JF had "Caution" setting turned on.  The final results:  one player
> finished up 58 pts, the other down by the same amount.  All games
> were recorded.  Just a rumor...
>
> (snip)
>
> Hmmm.  Based on the light level generated in our newsgroup over
> SUSPECTED cheating by bots, I bet the bridge newsgroup is at times
> solar powered!

  And before our newsgroup again becomes lucent, let me add that I also
heard that for Davis's above mentioned experiment, ALL DICE ROLLS were
generated by humans.

      Chuck
      bower@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu
      c_ray on FIBS
 
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