Date: 09/22/1999
From: Jim Geary
Newsgroups: comp.ai.games, rec.gambling.poker
Subject: Re: Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament
On 22 Sep 1999, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Do you limit the number of entries by a single entity?
>
> I suspect that people who enter multiple times can arrange to have a
> significant advantage if their entries cooperate to throw games to
> one of their entries.
Even then, it would be interesting to see how one would engineer the
recongition of a confederate program and then communicating
to said confederate to take a dive without someone reading the
source to recognize something like that. And that doesn't even
take into account this possible scenario:
comp1 "RRPR,sir"
comp2 .oO "Hmm, RRPR, I think he wants me to take a dive here by doing
the scissors every time."
comp1 "R"
comp2 .oO "he does!"
comp1 "R"
comp2 .oO "why am I always the one who has to lay it down?"
comp1 "R"
comp2 .oO "I mean, I trained just as hard as he did. I went
to the best schools. I'm on the path to self-enlightenment."
comp1 "R"
comp2 .oO "fuckit."
comp2 "P"
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