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Subject: Re: Man Can Beat Machine Until He Gets Tired - Try This Simple Game

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 04:47:11 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 07:36:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 07:29:29, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>On January 31, 2003 at 07:17:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>I did not try to play but logic tells me exactly the opposite.
>>>
>>>when the number of guesses is small the computer can know what most humans do in
>>>that situation and hide a coin in the second hand so if I am in the majority I
>>>will lose.
>>
>>That's like saying that one could win a chess game against the majority of
>>people with a standardised sequence of moves!
>
>The point is that in chess there are more possibilities and here there are only
>2 possibilities for each move.
>
>I believe that if a lot of people played you can have the best move for the
>computer in the first 10 moves so at least in these moves I expect to lose but
>maybe I should try( but I am not optimistic about beating the computer in 49
>level)

The trouble with using a small opening book is that once an opponent has learned
this book, they'll win again and again!

My aspiration for this game is that it will KEEP winning!

>I doubt if it can take 2 minutes if I think about every move.

If you're lucky, you can still win - even without much thought - at 49 moves.

>Uri

Go on - have a go - you KNOW you want to...  :)

http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm

-g



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