by Zmej » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:09 am
That's not a question of ethics, that's a question of a good arangement, so that the player would be inclined to play his best game all the time.
As for 100 hands, it's just a simplest possible example of the problems in formulating a proper arrangement, one can think of a bunch of more subtle situations.
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.