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Subject: Re: Odyssey2001-tournament : round 4 so far

Author: José Carlos

Date: 09:48:07 04/04/01

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On April 03, 2001 at 19:36:14, Daniel Chancey wrote:

>A bad plan is better than no plan at all.     If your plan is bad and you lose,
>pat yourself on the back for trying.
>
>Without a plan, you struggle to find what horse to ride and soon the bad guy
>will get you. with a plan,  you put your trust riding that horse for a while
>until you decide to get on another one (new plan)
>
>Castle2000

  I don't think there exist any human that plays without plan at all. I know
many players (I've played with them some times) whose plan is not to do anything
but wait until the opponent makes a mistake. Even that is a plan, IMO; the plan
of "not doing anything hoping that the opponet blunders".
  Even if you play a random move, you can say "my plan is playing random moves".
Absurd, but possible.
  Computers don't plan, because the verb "plan" implies a decision. And a
decision implies freedom to make it. Computers just follow the way their
algorithm tells them to follow. There's no decision there, at least, in the
sense a free being can make.

  José C.



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