Hi Filipa,

I just tried www.random.org for dice generation. It worked correctly for me.

What version of gnubg do you have? Go to Help-->About gnubg-->Build Info to see.

Louis

> Hi Louis,
> 
> thanks for your answer. I am using the same number generator as you.
> My memory is not fooling me because I wrote the results in a paper for more 
> than 100 games. I started to have this feeling some weeks ago and then 
> started to write the results of who starts first. I will continue though :P
> 
> I do not suspect any cheating, I was just curious if it happens to anyone 
> else.
> 
> Still related to the number generators, when I use random.org with seed 
> 16000000 I only get numbers between 1 and 3 in both dice. Does this have an 
> explanation?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:06, Louis Zulli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I recall, for a binomial distribution with n=100, p=.5 and q=.5, the 
> standard deviation is sqrt(n*p*q) = 5. So having gnubg start first 80 times 
> represents 6 standard deviations above the mean. The probability of this 
> happening by chance is very, very small!
> 
> Maybe you were simply very, very unlucky. Or maybe your memory is fooling you.
> 
> For my dice generation, I use a random number generator (Mersenne Twister). I 
> have no sense that gnubg wins the first roll more than I do, and I have 
> played hundreds (maybe thousands) of games.
> 
> Louis
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Filipa Andrade wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am playing against gnubg in grandmaster level with 3ply.
> > I find it strange that only around 20% of the times I start. 80% is gnubg 
> > that starts. Is it normal? I have made a sample of more than 100 games.
> > I a normal 7 games match it happens often that I never get to start first. 
> > Which are the best dice settings?
> >
> > Thank you for your help and thank you so much for gnubg, I am learning a 
> > lot!
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