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! > > _______________________________________________ > > Bug-gnubg mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg > >
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