On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:36:43PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:59:33PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Mark Mielke wrote: > > > > A bot that can out-dogfight humans most of the time? Possible. A bot that > > > > can out-clue a human and actually win the game? Doubtful. > > > Why not? :-) > > > Just some examples of how *theoretically* a bot team could be > > > significantly better than a human team. Certain other aids are usually > > That's it, it's just theoretical. In practice, any algorithm that you > > program will have a flaws and weaknesses. Humans will find these and exploit > > them, and your bots will lose. > > So... some of us are believers, and some are non-believers. Some of us have seen at least three different actual netrek-playing robots in games against humans. -Tom