Spider Solitaire Appology

[Knapp]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> After playing the mid-level game of Spider Solitaire, it took a while to
> remember how I played before.  I told a lie in my explanation of the win
> percentage, but not on purpose.  Using Spider Solitaire as a memory
> exercise, I could not do it with the easiest game for it was too little
> competition.  The second level caused too many losses to keep me
> interested, so I would not start a game until I had at lease two runs of
> three to start out the game.  I would just redeal until that came up.
> With that much of a head start, the game became winnable enough to keep
> it interesting.  So winning percentages became high because I didn't
> start a tough game.  Anyway, it has been more than three years since I
> played, and I wasn't playing to prove anything; I was just playing to
> exercise my memory.  I am embarrassed, because I lost about 10 games in
> a row, when I started playing again.  It wasn't until that happened,
> that I remembered how I got winning to happen enough to want to continue
> to play.  I don't want you guys to think I can't be reasonably trusted.
> I try very hard to not lie anymore.  I am ashamed when I do and don't
> realize it.  I don't do it on purpose anymore.
>
> Steven

In my religion, Zen Buddhism there is a precept not to lie but to tell
the truth. This is a great way to see your true self. When you stop
lying even little lies you tell yourself become starkly appenent and
this then lets up clean up our act.

What you have done is not telling a lie it is more just a mistake.
Having bad intention is very important to well done evil lying! :-)

Wikipedia
Lie
A lie (also called prevarication), is a type of deception in the form
of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive
others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or
reputation, protect someone's feelings or to avoid a punishment.

Wikipedia
Truth
The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and
sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in
particular.[1] The term has no single definition about which a
majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various
theories of truth continue to be debated.

I would highly recommend learning to play the game GO to help your
memory and be sure to eat lots of fish and green veggies!
quarry is good with gnu go as the engine
I mostly play using qgo on the IGS server so that I can play real people.
some good sites are:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Go
http://goproblems.com/
http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/
http://www.gokgs.com/applet.jsp
http://www.usgo.org/resources/whatisgo.html

Don't expect to start winning until you have played for a year! A
great way to learn to be humble! It is also a great way to understand
how China thinks about taking over the world in it's own way.
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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