Author: Graham Laight
Date: 13:10:37 02/02/03
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On February 02, 2003 at 11:14:35, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 02, 2003 at 10:10:04, Graham Laight wrote: > >>Since I made the pattern recognition algorithm "more aggressive" yesterday, >>nobody has posted any results! >> >>It looks like people will only paste their results here if they win - am I >>right? >> >>One minor modification today - the program will start playing you on the third >>turn now, not the seventh. The sooner proper play starts, the sooner it can >>understand your personality. Have another go... >> >>http://mysite.freeserve.com/grahamlaight/jscript/GuessWhichHand.htm > >I simply did not play. > >I take my games seriously and after winning only by result of 101-100 before the >modification I was afraid to try again. > >You said that it is easy to win the computer in short games so I thought about >the possibility to try a gambit in the first moves to confuse the computer. > >A simple idea that gives good chances may be to get an advantage in the >beginning of the game and to continue by random choice. You are, of course, most welcome to play the game in any way you wish! Your method proposed above would give you a better than even chance of winning - but it strikes me as being just a teeny-weeny bit unsporting - a little bit like saying to a human opponent, "We'll play chess over the board so long as, at a moment of my own choosing, we can switch to using computers to select the moves". >It may be interesting if somebody can find a simple formula to get a convincing >win against the computer. This is certainly possible. At the moment, ANY feedback would be welcome! :) I know that I, personally, do not play my own game very well. Now that I've changed the pattern-matching algorithm, I personally can do much better in the early stages of the game, but I find that the computer becomes clever in guessing my choices sooner. I wanted to know if this finding applied to other people as well. It could be that the changes I've made actually make it easier for other people to win rather than more difficult - at this stage, I can only guess. Oh well. >I believe that it may be possible to define some pattern that the computer does >not consider. Maybe someone out there is, even as we speak, writing a program which will play the game better than mine does (which is undoubtedly possible), and we can have the world's first "Computer "Guess Which Hand" Competition"! :) -g >Uri
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