On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Ashley Griffiths wrote:
I am pretty sure the original article came to the conclusion that Poker was a
1 or 2, and backgammon was a 4. Been a while since i saw it, but I think
those were the numbers. With checkers at 8, chess at 16 and go at
approximately 40. So its not like the authors had a problem with poker having
a low complexity.
The 40 rating for go is representative of a pro player versus an absolute
begginner and gives the beginner something like 8E-23% chance to beat a pro
(thats probably less than the chance of the pro dropping dead mid game :p)
If poker had a 1 rating it says an absolute beginner has a 25% chance to beat
Dolly (if its 2 then its a 6.25% chance, and from that I am inclined to think
its probably actually somewhere between the two, which based on the
definition would mean it is a complexity of 1)
Wow that was a bit rambly, sorry about that
Thanks, these numbers look very reasonable to me,
Christoph
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