Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 00:29:51 05/02/00
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On May 02, 2000 at 03:24:19, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >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 A small difference (happens all the time : Computer is a bit faster / slower, initial swaping, a bit less time, HT filled with a different numbers, parallel randomness .... ) can result in a different move which will result in a different game. Ever heared of Chaos Theory ? :-) Sincerely, Butterfly
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