07-02-2013, 03:58 PM
"The easy way to disprove that is to give him a challenge game against Houdini,
and I would be tempted to bet my life savings that he would get wiped out 10-0."
I'm not too sure.
Say the challenge was 10 one hour games v Houdini.
You get Houdini to play itself at a one hour setting for say 30 games.
Then memorise the games where it won. I reckon I could store 10 complete games at the very least.
Use the same commercial package and produce a couple of these.
Or even more in fitting with the whole scheme.
Write your own or tamper with Houdini. (this lad is a computer programmer)
Save it to disc, make the said disc to look the Houdini disc with a disc printing kit
and place in it's Houdini box.
Go around to someone's house Invite a load sceptics around,
load up the fake Houdini and beat it once with White and
once with Black. (this doctored Houdini only plays two games...two brilliant games.)
Switch off the computer, look at the startled crowd and say: "how easy was that."
You now have a crowd of witnesses, also some spark will run a match up and no doubt
found it does not match up with the Houdini percentages thus bringing into doubt the
whole match up system that is hanging him.
and I would be tempted to bet my life savings that he would get wiped out 10-0."
I'm not too sure.
Say the challenge was 10 one hour games v Houdini.
You get Houdini to play itself at a one hour setting for say 30 games.
Then memorise the games where it won. I reckon I could store 10 complete games at the very least.
Use the same commercial package and produce a couple of these.
Or even more in fitting with the whole scheme.
Write your own or tamper with Houdini. (this lad is a computer programmer)
Save it to disc, make the said disc to look the Houdini disc with a disc printing kit
and place in it's Houdini box.
Go around to someone's house Invite a load sceptics around,
load up the fake Houdini and beat it once with White and
once with Black. (this doctored Houdini only plays two games...two brilliant games.)
Switch off the computer, look at the startled crowd and say: "how easy was that."
You now have a crowd of witnesses, also some spark will run a match up and no doubt
found it does not match up with the Houdini percentages thus bringing into doubt the
whole match up system that is hanging him.