libreblackjack/players

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title: Example players for LibreBlackjack …

Example players for LibreBlackjack

The subdirectory players contains some automatic players that play against LibreBlackjack. These players are coded in different languages and communicate with LibreBlackjack in a variety of ways in order to illustrate the design basis:

• 00-internal uses the internal player (coded in C++) that defaults to playing one million hands of basic strategy
• 02-always-stand, using the UNIX tool yes this player always says “stand” into the standard output (which is piped to libreblackjack’s standard input) no matter what the cards are
• 05-no-bust is a PERL-based player does not bust (i.e. hits if the hard total is less than twelve) that receives the cards through the standard input but draws or stands using a FIFO to talk back to the dealer. There are also implementation in AWK (similar speed) and in a pure Bash script (10x slower)
• 08-mimic-the-dealer does tha same the dealer do (hits soft seventeens). It is implemented in AWK using two FIFOs.
• 20-basic-strategy derives the basic strategy from scratch in less than one minute by calling the internal player successively with different strategy files from a shell script.