Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary

From: yangboy@math.ntu.edu.tw (Hel)

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1993 14:23:21 +0000

bonar@math.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar) writes:

: [...] experience should make a difference ...

It does--- by driving forcefully home the mistakes you made.  Notice, I
said _mistakes_.  Not by supplying you with data that you did not and
could not have had earlier or in another game.

In other words, ideally having botched something up once you don't do it
again (or too often, in real life) and therefore improve your play after
careful analysis of your earlier turns.  This is natural and fine with me.
I DO have problems with having to resort to getting inside information
(by suffering myself or getting them elsewhere) to do well and/or win.

In other words, and here we come to the critical point of difference:
I want to be able to sit down for the first time at a game and given
enough time (NOT game time or turns) outdo someone who has lots of experience
but is not as good a strategist and tactician.  You don't.

Do you agree with this assessment?

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Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary
bonar@math.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)
Fri, 02 Jul 1993 00:46:53 +0000