On Thu 01 Mar 2007 (09:11 +0100), Massimiliano Maini wrote: > Hi all, > > browsing rec.games.backgammon I've found the usual lot of complaints about > rigged dice > on on-line BG sites. Nothing new, but one thing caught my attention: > somebody was claiming > that on one particular site it was easy for a "good" player to reach a > high rating in a short > period of time, but after that strange losses would appear systematically > against lower rated > players (like large doubles for the underdog in a race, repeated dancing > against 2pt boards, etc). > Somebody got the impression the site was trying to favor the "weaker" > player, maybe to avoid > losing him as a customer. > > I'm sure nobody has enough *real* evidence of that, but I won't be > surpised by something like > this really existing ... business is business :) > > I was wandering if somebody (players and/or on-line sites) would be > interested in a system > capable of proving that the dice has not been manipulated during a given > match. Your opinion ?
I don't think you can make a meaningful judgement as to whether the rolls were random in a single match were manipulated. For that matter I have my doubts whether even a large series of matches - say 10,000 moves or so, would allow one to give an informed opinion. -- Jim Segrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
