Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:11:49 12/24/00
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On December 24, 2000 at 09:09:27, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>My congratulations to Vishy Anand, for winning the
>FIDE World Championship 2000!
>
>3,5-0,5 in the final against Shirov, that leaves no
>discussion whatsoever. Anand was the best, remained
>unbeaten and scored a clear victory in the final.
>Well done!
>
>Jeroen
I am still absolutely amazed that a World Championship can be decided this way.
A score of 3.5-0.5 is not statistically significant, not even with a low
confidence.
It is now clear, at least amongst the experienced computers chess operators,
that such a result means NOTHING.
I think that the computer chess community is on some topics much more advanced
than the human chess community. For example the human chess community has
adopted the ELO rating system, but still ignores most of the basic rules of this
system (margin of error, level of confidence). The computer chess community is
aware of these rules, and you can find these parameters published in the SSDF
rating list for example.
Christophe
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