Author: Roger
Date: 00:04:13 01/31/00
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On January 31, 2000 at 02:59:25, Roger wrote: > >1. Wouldn't Tiger repeatedly lose to ALL the other programs, not just Junior? >There are quite a few games versus Nimzo and Fritz on the 200 megahertz >machnines there, too. Is it observed with them? > >2. Interestingly, the results show that Junior 5 whomps Tiger more than Junior >6, 33 to 9 (j5) versus 24.5-17.5 (J6). What is it about J5 versus Tiger that >creates this finding? Obviously it's not tuning, since J5 predates Tiger by a >lot. > >3. I assume the column just to the right of the rating gives the width of a 95% >confidence interval... If so, then Junior and Tiger are in a statistical dead >heat. > >I know it is a linguistic convention to say that the program with the highest >rating is in first place, but conventions aside, mathematically there is no >"first place" here, but only a shared number one: The math is the math (and this >is nothing against Junior. I own Junior 5 and I like its style a lot better than >Fritz 6.0 or Hiarcs 7.32). There is just no #1 here (unless you want to argue >that a smaller confidence interval might be better). > >In this list there are two number 9's, and then an eleven, which strongly >implies that the ratings are more reliable than they really are. > >Roger I read it wrong. J6 whomps J5. So the second point is invalid. Roger
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