The flight from Leningrad to Washington D.C. landed at Baltimore's Washington International Airport, and the staff of the Organizing Committee of the 22nd International Mathematical Olympiad had already arranged a bus for the Moscow delegation to pick them up from the airport to the hotel in the dark of night.
Grigory and Seryosha were playing poker almost all the way, and by the time they got off the plane, they were already good friends, at least Seryosha thought so.
After arriving at the hotel, it was already late at night, the room had already been allocated, Seryosha was wearing a bathrobe and leaning on the bed watching TV after taking a shower, at this moment there was a knock on the door, Seryosha hurriedly opened the door to check, but found that it was Grigory.
Seryosha was a little strange, so he asked, "Is there anything going on so late?"
"I've come up with a way to increase your 21-point win rate, I don't know if you're interested," Grigory said excitedly, standing outside the door with his luggage.
In fact, Seryosha is more interested in sleeping now, but unfortunately it is not Seryosha's style to reject a friend he just met, anyway, his room is a double room, and there is an empty bed.
It wasn't a problem to let Grigori in, so he shook his head and turned sideways to make a way for Grigory to come in.
Before Grigory could stand up, Seryosha pressed his shoulders and made him sit on the bed, and said in advance: "Sleep first, but tomorrow there will be a game" I thought that this guy would object, but who knew that he actually agreed.
Seryosha lay on his bed, turned off the TV and turned off the light, and soon fell into a half-asleep state.
"Seryosha, do you think there will be a prize if you win this competition?"
Grigory's sudden question once again pulled Seryosha back from the fog before going to bed.
"What's the matter, are you short of money?"
asked Seryosha.
"I want to buy a violin for my sister and a sweater for my mother.
By the way, I had to buy a better calculator for my dad.
Grigory counted the gifts he had given to his family one by one, but forgot his own.
"It's okay, I can lend it to you, and I'll pay it back when you have the money," Seryosha replied casually.
"Actually, my 21-point card counting method is very simple, you only need" "Purr" Grigory was about to continue, but the sound of sleeping snoring could already be heard from Seryosha, and Grigory had no choice but to stop.
The next morning, from the moment Seryosha got up, Grigory had been urging him with his eyes, saying that women needed to do the most things in the morning, in fact, there were many men, and Grigory had been anxiously waiting for him from the time Seryosha left the bed, washed, got on the tuba, and then went to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.
It wasn't until the two returned from the dining room that Seryosha patiently listened to Grigory explain his theory.
"My method is to write 27 as 1, 89 as 0, 10 as 1、、、、 and then add or subtract to calculate which side the unused cards will go towards.
The sum of the counts and the number of decks left in the shoe are what I call the true number.
By adjusting the bets and decisions by referring to the true number, it is possible to reduce the banker's edge.
Grigory said confidently.
"It's going to be a game in the afternoon, don't you need to prepare and let me play with you at 21 o'clock?"
asked Seryosha a little uneasily.
This expedition was originally a goodwill from Leningrad University to Seryosha, and there was no specific work assigned to Seryosha in the first place, in fact, it could be regarded as a publicly-funded tour.
Seryosha did not want to affect the results of the Soviet delegation because of his connections.
"It's okay, help me test it, I want to see if my theory works," Grigory urged excitedly.
So Seryosha played 21 points with Grigory in the room to test the winning rate of Grigory's theory in actual combat.
It was a boring affair, but Grigory had a lot of fun, and for the sake of fairness, Grigory allowed Seryosha to keep track of the cards that had appeared.
Because Grigory's memory is so strong that he simply has his own cheat.
"It doesn't seem to work very well, and it only provides a three-percent success rate."
The two had been verifying hundreds of rounds, and Grigory made some small changes to his method, and finally said in discouragement.
"But I barely beat you on the plane yesterday," Seryosha encouraged Grigory, and just as he had finished saying this, there was a knock on the door outside.
The team leader shouted outside the door: "Seryosha, it's time for us to go" "Oops" Seryosha and Grigory have been playing for too long, and now their minds are always thinking about 、、、 and other patterns, and their brains are extremely tired, it is like playing mahjong all night.
He estimated that Grigory must be a mess in his mind now, how can this competition be a competition, you know, although the International Mathematical Olympiad is a competition for middle school students, but it is a competition of mathematical geniuses from all over the world, and this competition is held in the United States, no matter when, as long as it can compete with the Americans, the Soviet players are highly expected, which invisibly causes a lot of pressure.
"Are you okay now, hurry up and wash your face to sober up" Seryosha couldn't help but blame himself, he didn't help much, now it's okay, he played with the main players for most of the day at 21 o'clock, if the team leader knew about it, he would have to kill him.
"It's okay, let's come back and play" Grigory pushed open the door and walked out with a nonchalant expression, and when he came outside, everyone had already got on the bus, and there were only two of them left, Seryosha got into the car with an apologetic face, found a random seat and sat down, and the car started quickly.
The 22nd International Mathematical Olympiad is held in a spacious gymnasium on the campus of the University of Washington.
Each participant must complete all the questions within 45 hours.
In order to take care of the Russian team from afar, this tournament deliberately changed the game time to the afternoon.
The competition lasts for two days, and today is the first preliminary round, and the teams that pass the preliminary round can be as quiet as tomorrow's rematch.
Once in the arena, Grigory was separated from Seryosha, who sat in the audience, next to the deputy leader of the delegation, a professor of mathematics at Leningrad University.
The audience is full of mathematics professors from various universities in the United States, and if there are outstanding players in the competition, it is likely that these math masters will be favored and invited.
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