2 Feb
2005
2 Feb
'05
8:08 a.m.
Does anyone know where Marc Paulhus is now? His email address at Calgary bounces. Arturo Magidin just pointed out to me that in the new release of Winning Ways Vol 4 (on p.892), they claim that Marc found a non-terminating game of Beggar- Your-Neighbor. But they don't cite or present the hand. WW also says, though, that Marc says that one out of 150,000 hands will not terminate, and I find that hard to believe -- I wrote a computer program (some ten years ago) that plays random deals, and it's played hundreds of billions of hands without finding one that cycles. So I'm hoping to find out what the story really is... --Michael -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.