README for Blackjack AI project
by Maria Nikolova, Maria Mateva, Deyan Doychev

This program is provided as is and comes with absolutely no warranty.
Use at your own risk!!!

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Contents:

1. Installation instructions
2. Usage

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1. Installation instructions:
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In order to use this program you need python version 2.6.
You need to install pysage: http://code.google.com/p/pysage .
The easiest way to do this is by running:
easyinstall pysage
It was implemented and tested using pysage version 2.5.2. Other
versions may also work but it is not guaranteed.

For the GUI you need wxPython version 2.8 but it is currently not
fully integrated.

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2. Usage
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The program currently runs 500 iterations of 100 games and summarizes
the result.
All games are played with 1 player against a dealer.

It takes up to two arguments:
	- the first argument specifies the type of the player that will
		play. It can be one of the following:
		- human - for human player
		- SARSA - for the SARSA player - the self-learning player
		- probability - for the Probability AI player
		- HiLo - for the card-counting player
		- basic - for the player using the basic strategy
	- the second argument is optional. If it is present or the player
		is a human player - the simple (console) UI is started and a
		better log about the game is outputted.
The game plays the iterations of hands and then summarizes the
results. It creates a file called statistics that contains a line for
each iteration - the number of games won by the player in these 100 
games.