Pavel Durov
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it gets quite complicated if you keep playing it.
My classmates used to love it.
And some of my classmates were really smart, you know, champions of math olympiads, sons and daughters of professors at the university.
And I decided, no, I want to win every single time.
I don't want to lose even a single time.
So how do I win?
I need to practice more.
But how do I practice more?
I need an opponent stronger than myself.
So I coded this game so that I would play against the computer.
And the computer would calculate, I think, four moves in advance to choose the optimal strategy.
That wasn't enough.
Four more decisions in advance, I would still win over it.
If I tried to calculate five or six, it was too slow.
So I asked my brother to help me out here.
So he made this algorithm.
Eventually, I trained myself to win every single time.
Even with the computer back then.
We didn't have...
modern CPUs, and I could still retain some self-confidence.