bbjd - Beat the blackjack dealer Main code written by Jacob Rief in 1992. Adopted for public and published in 1998. Purpose: This program is not a game. If You expected a game I am sorry, You may find something adequate for sure. This is a tool to calculate the optimum strategy playing Black Jack. This program may be used to prove that playing Black Jack, it is possible to beat the casino. As far as I know, Black Jack is the only game offered by casinos, where it is mathematically proven, that it is possible to win on the long term. It was written in 1992 during my studies of physics for a mathematical seminar about probability calculations. The program may be used to understand and to learn the strategies how to beat the dealer. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF THE STRATEGY OR PROGRAM DOES NOT WORK AS DESCRIBED. Please also read the following files: Theory: Understand how the strategy beating the dealer works. Install: How to build the two executables. Interactive: How to use the interactive front end. Simulation: How to use the simulating tool. COPYING: GPL stuff. Please note, that both programs have no graphical user interface (a graphically user interface would be too conspicuous anyway). Therefore the interface might look quite dump. The reason is to allow maximum portability with minimum system dependency. These programs should compile and run on practically every platform with a C-compiler, the <stdio.h> include file and a standard C-library. The author is a native German speaker, so don't be shocked if You find any spelling errors in this text. Instead I would appreciate if You would inform me and send them to bbjd@bigfoot.com.
