Science
If you put the letters THETA in reverse, you get
- Adaptive
- Tarneeb
- Emulated
- Human
- Thinking
Probably took us a good hour to come up with this name. Yet, the name does contain a hint about the secret behind THETA's brain: Adaptive.
In short, THETA works by continuously learning from other people. By watching every single card played by others and looking at the outcome, THETA is slowly able to make better decisions on what defines a "good play" and a "bad play". However, the problem with this approach is that we need THETA to watch thousands of games, to be able to capture as much statistically meaningful data as possible.
After about 8 months developing the base code, we started playing real games and recording all the cards played and results. We then fed this data into THETA's database for analysis. We quickly realized this approach was very time consuming. So we decided to build a website. A place where lots of people can play Tarneeb, and the outcomes of their games will be input into THETA's database. Every game played on the website is being watched by THETA. The game outcomes, cards played, betting delays, hesitation factors and dozens of other statistics are continuously being fed into THETA's database.
Ultimate Tarneeb was born… More…