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Subject: Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 00:24:19 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 02:59:24, Dann Corbit wrote:

>A coin is approximately fair.
>
>Flip it 20 times.  Heads is program A.  Tails is program B.  The odds of exactly
>10:10 is very, very low.
>
>Try repeating the experiment ten times.  You may be surprised at the wide
>variety that you see.
>
>This is reflected in the results for nearly equal programs.

After all, the search algo of a chess program is completely deterministic, isn't
it ?
Why do you compare with flipping coins, Dann ?

Regards, Uli

• Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good Georg v. Zimmermann 00:29:51 05/02/00
  • Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good Ulrich Tuerke 00:37:48 05/02/00
    • Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good Christophe Theron 00:49:22 05/02/00

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