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From: P.Fayers@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
Subject: Re: 5 cards stud poker logic/algorithm/strategy ?
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:23:53 GMT
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In article <310D141A.2D22@xenon.chromatic.com>, Paul Hsieh <qed@xenon.chromatic.com> writes:
>Darren Walker wrote:
>>
>> Jim Karlinski (karljam@minna.acc.iit.edu) wrote:
>> : Hah! If only there was such an algorithm! I'd be a rich man. The day a
>> : computer program can play poker competently is the day I chop my dick
>> : off.
>> 
>> : Jim Karlinksi
>> : Aesop
>> 
>> Um...Should I mail you the butcher knife in preparation?
>
>Indeed his statement is a little too bold.  It reminds me of the statements
>made by chess grandmasters that said computers would never beat them.  Right
>now it looks like the best computer program could just about beat *everyone*
>except possibly the top 10 players in the world 

Not quite.  The current crop can beat grand masters on speed chess.  Go to
longer games and the people are still winning.

>and pretty much everyone
>agrees that its only a matter of time (read: definately less than 5 years)
>before the computers reign supreme in the royal game.

Probably, yes.  Then we'll have to see how long it takes before computers
are beating the world Go champions, 10 years, 20 years?

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