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Subject: Re: Upon scientific truth - the nature of information

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 13:59:32 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 16:45:19, ShaktiFire wrote:

>Chris Carson has documented dozens of games at standard time control
>of computer play vs. GMs.
>
>I won't knit pick...this or that program, this or that hardware.
>
>But in the last 2 years, dozens of games have been played.  Computers
>vs. GMs at standard time control.
>
>Ratings can be calculated with these games.  The more games played,
>the less uncertainty in the rating.  The rating indicated, based
>on these dozens of games is over 2500.

You can't include games from all types of programs on all types of hardware
under different game conditions (tournament, exhibition or something else) and
reach a sound conclusion. Given the number of programs and hardware
configurations, you can't say that computer programs as a single entity are of
GM strength. You need an identical setup, software and hardware, and then
conduct enough games to reduce the uncertainty sufficiently to ensure a
confident rating above 2500. The scientific method is testing using a stable and
unchanged setup.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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