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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:02:43 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 07:47:11, Graham Laight wrote:

>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

For some reason I do not get the question after I click start.

Maybe I will try later in another computer because I suspect that there is some
problem with this computer that prevents me to see things(I know that I also
cannot see the content of another cite only from this computer and not from
another computer).

Uri



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