Re: [ba-poker] Bots

[Jim Geary <jaygee(deleted the rest)>]

You find the bot, lay me 3:2 on my money and I'll play for as much per
game as anyone can muster.  Surely this should be a good deal for a
crushing computer.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:

> Michael Wiesenberg wrote:
> > At Thursday, 3/4/2004 02:01 PM -0800, James Kittock wrote:
> > 
> >> Having said that, there are games where a "bot",
> >> that is, a computer program, makes the game
> >> relatively pointless for humans.  Scrabble is
> >> a good example--well-written Scrabble programs
> >> generally crush the best human players.
> > 
> > 
> > Do you have proof of this?
> 
> If you'll forgive the appeal to authority, how about:
> 
> "Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that 
> exceeds that of the strongest human players." 
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=512159
>