Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start

From: arc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Richard Conway)

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1993 17:52:38 +0000

(Graham Matthews) writes:
>
>bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:
>> First of all, they can always not look at the formulae if they don't want to.
>> However the impression I have been getting is that the people advocating
>> hiding the rules are just poor game players who want to handicap better
>> players so they don't get eliminated from a game. In the short run hiding
>> the rules will do this, but in the long run it will make things worse.
>
>Ah I was waiting for this too. Now I don't want to boast but this demands a
>reply. I and many of the people I play with consider me to be an excellent
>game player and I never look at equations. I always play by feel. I can give
>you email addresses of people who will attest to my ability in a number of
>games and to my playing style. So please the above paragraph is just nonsense.

I will attest to Graham being a very competent, non-minimax type player.
But I don't think Bruno's comment is total nonsense.

Andrew.

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References

Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start
srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)
Fri, 02 Jul 1993 16:38:59 +0000
Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Fri, 02 Jul 1993 18:07:07 +0000
Re: PBM design and formulae - a fresh start
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
Sat, 03 Jul 1993 16:43:57 +0000