Author: fca
Date: 00:34:05 08/18/98
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Bruce Moreland wrote [amended]: > If someone won the first one then lost the next >nine, I would say that they had lost nine out of ten, not that they'd lost nine >in a row. Agreed... This is the casino problem. Normally, you will let the punter play Ferret as much as he likes (or rather, a limit will not be imposed by you because he is winning too much), in the same way as a casino lets the punter gamble as much as he likes (subject to other restrictions). Now for any individual game the odds favour Ferret (a few super-GMs or n-tuple cpu craftys excepted), as the odds favour a casino though I concede for different reasons (Ferret's 'cos it plays so well, the casino because of the rules). Say the mathematical point expectation for Ferret per game against this opponent is 0.51. So, how much advantage does the punter have from the ability to "walk away" as soon as he is "ahead" (whatever "ahead" means - let us forget grading as then the question is too complex for me)? Is this an advantage at all? Please ignore all psychological considerations, this is a "straight" ( ;-) ) math-chess question. Kind regards fca
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