Thread: Paul Magriel?
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Old 10-26-2005, 09:26 AM
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Too bad it isn't on video or anything....it'd be fun to watch Magriel offer the doubling cube to himself and debate whether or not he should take it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


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I'm pretty sure it was a computer program he had coded, rather than him physically playing dozens of games against himself.

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Nope. It was in the pre-PC days. He played the entire tourney out by hand.