bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) (06/21/91)
I don't normally read this newsgroup - if the following is in the wrong group or has already been covered, I apologize in advance. I've noticed that Reversi moves from the MS side have a different effect from those of the user. If I place a disk at the end of a line which contains both disks of my color and of MS, then all MS disks are flipped which lie between the disk I just played and the *nearest* disk of mine. However, when MS does the same thing, then all my disks are flipped which lie between the last disk played and the *furthest* MS disk. This is especially noticeable when MS has a disk all the way at the other end of the line, with alternating colors in between. The result is that MS captures the entire line, but the reverse is not true for me. Am I missing something? Brad Keister Department of Physics Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-2772 internet: keister@poincare.phys.cmu.edu BITNET: keister%poincare.phys.cmu.edu@CARNEGIE
mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) (06/21/91)
bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) writes: > If I place a disk at the end of a line > which contains both disks of my color and of MS, then all MS disks are > flipped which lie between the disk I just played and the *nearest* > disk of mine. However, when MS does the same thing, then all my disks > are flipped which lie between the last disk played and the *furthest* > MS disk. My version doesn't do this. It's version 3.0, on beginner level. mathew
bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) (06/24/91)
In article <wcMBweW00Uh_A1r2c9@andrew.cmu.edu> bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) writes: > >I've noticed that Reversi moves from the MS side have a different >effect from those of the user. If I place a disk at the end of a line >which contains both disks of my color and of MS, then all MS disks are >flipped which lie between the disk I just played and the *nearest* >disk of mine. However, when MS does the same thing, then all my disks >are flipped which lie between the last disk played and the *furthest* >MS disk. I've never noticed it do this before, and I've played Reversi a lot. What settings are you using, and can you reproduce the game (Reversi doesn't seem to have any randomization, so games can be reproduced pretty easily)? BTW, there _is_ a bug in Reversi that I know about: try running it on a screen which doesn't have something close to a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio (like a CGA screen - an old portable I have has CGA built into the motherboard & I can't just replace the video on it :). Looks rather strange, doesn't it? Makes me wonder just how many different hardware configurations they tested it under, or at any rate whether they really tried very hard to fix anything but UAE's ... But this has no effect on the program's _play_. Bruce C. Wright
bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard) (06/25/91)
mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) writes: >> If I place a disk at the end of a line >> which contains both disks of my color and of MS, then all MS disks are >> flipped which lie between the disk I just played and the *nearest* >> disk of mine. However, when MS does the same thing, then all my disks >> are flipped which lie between the last disk played and the *furthest* >> MS disk. >My version doesn't do this. It's version 3.0, on beginner level. Does Backgammon cheat? It (the computer) seems to get doubles awefully conveniently. > -- "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and talent."
koerber.sin@sni.de (Mathias Koerber) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun24.170410.28034@midway.uchicago.edu> bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard) writes: | |Does Backgammon cheat? It (the computer) seems to get doubles awefully |conveniently. And it hits the only hole in your home-prime with ~90% accuracy...