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Subject: Re: Poll Question for "If Computers are finally as Strong as GM's"

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 01:11:13 06/22/99

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On June 22, 1999 at 04:02:34, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>I have read some other threads about this, and get the impression for some that
>when computers win it only seems to be luck and a blunder from a GM that makes a
>computer win.
>
>I think that suggestion is crap, but I think it would be a great opinion poll
>question.
It does not matter *why* the computer or GM wins.  And when you get right down
to it, it is either favorable probabilty or a blunder that allows *anyone* to
win {computer/human/cyborg}.  If perfect play happended on both sides, I am not
sure what would happen.  It has never occured yet, so far as I know.

An opinion poll on the topic is surely not going to settle this issue.  Either
the GM made a strange mistake or not.  If it happened once, did all of them
happen that way?  And when the computer loses -- silly mistake or not?  All in
the eye of the beholder.



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