Bots - quote from a chessmaster to discuss

[AngusThermopyle]

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but I have a hard time visualizing how a bot is going to decide to "sometimes" do this or that, or to know when it's static moves have been found out and alter them in a correct way.

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Huh?

"Slowplay Aces 12% of the time"
1. Get dealt Aces
2. Generate a random number X, 1-100 inclusive
3. If X <= 12, slowplay. Otherwise play normal.

Works with bluffs, etc. The idea that a computer program cannot "mix up it's play" is naive. It can be programmed to give the opponents rating of 1-10 in a dozen different categories, combine that with their positions in the hand and decide what % of the time to slowplay, etc for a given hand and a given position. And then roll the dice to see what line to take.

The problem is getting the programmers and players together so they can translate the various advanced concepts into subroutines.

And we already have the equivilent of poker "cyborgs". Players with massive PT databases. And how "flexible" can someone playing 8 tables be?