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Subject: Re: WMCCC 2000

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:41:22 04/19/00

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On April 19, 2000 at 18:44:39, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On April 19, 2000 at 16:51:34, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>According to that page, computers will be competing in several other games,
>>including Backgammon, Othello, and Awari.  To my knowledge these three games
>>(and possibly some of the other ones) have been completely solved by computers.
>>So what's the point of having a competition for them?
>
>I'm pretty sure Backgammon hasn't been solved. Difficult with the random element
>of dice I think. I have a backgammon program I can beat, unless it cheats with
>the dice off coure ;o).

I decided to look it up, and of course you're right.  None of these games has
been solved.  I'm not sure where I think I read that before. :/



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