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by: Marco's Tankles - Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:45 UTC

On Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 2:41:12 PM UTC-7, mont...@lycos.com wrote:
> I have been tempted to post this kind of position for a long time,
> since it comes up so often, but I have refrained from doing so because
> I don't really care - I just use the software to detect weak points,
> and don't care if I "win" against it or not. However, it is
> irritating when I go back to play a game from a certain position and
> keep having GNUBG roll automatically, and it keeps hitting, time after

I don't doubt the number generators are generating some random dice. However, why is the "seed" always reverts to 8? I can change it to something else, but on the next roll I check again and it is back to 8. Also maybe this is just coincidence but it seems like Gnub gets more "lucky rolls" on a seed of 8, whereas I get either more normal rolls or lucky rolls for myself when the seed is not 8. Hmmmm....

Another thing I do is check who got the most doubles at the end of a match. Most of the time Gnub wins that contest, sometimes brutally. I rarely win that contest. So whereas I get 1 or 2 doubles, Gnub gets 7 or 8 of them. Is this really "random?"

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Subject	Author
Re: Why many think GNUBG is "rigged."	Marco's Tankless
Re: Why many think GNUBG is "rigged."	Frank Berger