> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
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> I had (mis)understood it to mean to bet in such manner as to
> provide one's opponent with deliberately misleading information.
> But:
>
> Optimal bluffing also requires that the bluffs must be performed in
> such a manner that opponents cannot tell when a player is bluffing
> or not. ...
>
> I.e. one's bets should convey no information, neither correct
> nor misleading.
>
> And I was largely motivated by the (astonishing) result that
> in some (most? all?) games of strategy, a perfect player does
> no better against a very poor opponent than against a
> opponent who also plays perfectly.
I believe chess, go, etc., would be exceptions to that observation
because the players cannot "conceal" any part of their positions. TMK
the result of perfect play by both players at chess has not been
determined.
-jc-
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