Confused. Learning ?

[gl-yziquel]

Arthur Samuel's program was historically the first learning agent.

Here, I tried to play a game against the arthur agent, with the python2 game.py command. Followed by selecting arthur as the agent. I typed 0 all the way through. Always selecting the first move. And I won !!

I'm under the opinion that the arthur agent hasn't been learning much... it is supposed to be on par or defeat average checkers players. And, here, 0 all the way through, and I win.

I also do not see many things in the code that could be construed as implementing the kind of prototype reinforcement learning that Arthur Samuel pioneered. Nor in the documentation.

So. Question: is learning implemented ?