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Subject: Re: mclane's summer-tournament: round 6 update

Author: Serge Desmarais

Date: 14:30:37 09/05/98

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On September 05, 1998 at 12:42:17, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 05, 1998 at 11:27:53, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>hello all,
>>tiger 11.2 (paderborn-version) has killed tiger 11.5. Ooops.
>
>Argh! Maybe 11.2 was book-prepared against 11.5? :) :)
>
>
>>I hope christophe
>>can stand this, we have a little argument which version is stronger and I prefer
>>the paderborn version over all...
>
>The argument was between 11.2 and 11.4. In my opinion there is no argument
>between 11.2 and 11.5. CT11.5 beats CT11.2 by more than 65%.
>
>In average, of course. On 1 game, anything can happen... You have seen one of
>the 35 games out of 100 that 11.2 can win against 11.5...
>
>
>    Christophe


   Exactly! Even with a 734 rating points difference, the weaker program would
still win one game out of 100! (It takes 735 points and more to have NO
statistical chances of winning a game!) So, seeing that ONE game could give the
false impression that the weaker program is better.


Serge Desmarais



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