An interesting footnote …

[FLASH1296]

The KO Strategy was first introduced in 1992 as the "All Sevens" count in The Book of British Blackjack.

 

[FLASH1296]

A pissing contest; laying claim to a revolutionary count !


In Sept. 1981 Arnold Snyder turned the BJ world on it's ear, publishing the ZEN COUNT in his Blackjack Forum.

In 1982 he published it in Blackbelt in Blackjack.

In 1982 a mathematics professor in Illinois, C. Ionescu Tulcea, published (Pocket Books, NY) A Book on Casino Blackjack,
which contained several counts, including his Main-Count System, using the same tags, (and far more indices).

What is noteworthy is that Tulcea presents a footnote on p. 56 stating that he is the progenitor of this count as of Feb. 1981 !

 

[blackjack avenger]

Different Minds Think Alike

Sometimes an idea or invention is realized by 2 different people at about the same time. I believe there was a Frenchman who flew about the same time as the Wright Bros?

 

[FLASH1296]

What leaps to my mind are the creation of calculus and the invention of the telephone.

The former — is the fascinating debate — Newton ~ or ~ Leibniz ?

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_and_Newton_calculus_controversy

The latter is so very engaging because Alexander Graham Bell got the credit only because he was an early riser,
and appeared at the U. S. Patent Office just hours before Elisha Gray.

See: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/telephone.html

 

[shadroch]

Some Colombian kid came up with a count almost exactly like Speed Count at almost the same time. Only difference was he offered his count for free while the inventors of Speed Count offered theirs at $500 seminars.

 

[FLASH1296]

I will reserve comment and leave it up to the collective imagination of my
friends and cohorts as to my feelings about those who would scam others
by audaciously selling a piece of sh*t like the Speed Count, but we all know
what huckster is responsible.

 

[FLASH1296]

A Colombian kid or a Columbia student ?

 

[shadroch]

I believe its the country, not the school.Guys name is Carlos Zilzer. Snyders board has his articles on OPP archived.


Great joke from NBC comedy Community

Student-I've got a Law degree from Colombia.
Dean- Thats great, now you need one from a school in this country.

 

[QFIT]

A Colombian kid or a Columbia student ?

Actually, it's spelled Venezuela. And neither of them was the first.

I've been trying to get hold of the Britsh Book of BJ for years. The owner of High Stakes book shop in London says he hadn't seen a copy in many years.

 

[zengrifter]

In Sept. 1981 Arnold Snyder turned the BJ world on it's ear, publishing the ZEN COUNT in his Blackjack Forum.

This article tends to show that Snyder did not actually "invent" the
ZEN tags (#42) any more than he invented the Mentor tags (#45). >>

THE "BEST" CARD COUNTING SYSTEM

 

[Midnght Cow]

Sometimes an idea or invention is realized by 2 different people at about the same time. I believe there was a Frenchman who flew about the same time as the Wright Bros?

Some people call this parallel thinking.

The term often is used by writers, especially in comedy, to deflect accusations that they stole an idea or a joke from another writer.

 

[tthree]

Some people call this parallel thinking.

The term often is used by writers, especially in comedy, to deflect accusations that they stole an idea or a joke from another writer.

HEY!!!!!!! I was going to say that.

 

[FLASH1296]

Hey … I already thought that, several minutes prior to your laying claim to … Oops, my amnesia just kicked in. What the hell was I mumbling about?

Don't bogart that ===~ my friend.

Hee Hee Hee

:laugh:

 

[Midnght Cow]

HEY!!!!!!! I was going to say that.

:grin:

:cow: