Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 04:21:59 11/13/97
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>>>Amir Ban wrote: >As for luck, everybody talks about it far too much. A chess game is NOT >a random event. When chess programmers talk about luck, they mean that >there are some things that they don't want or don't know how to control. >Everybody has this problem at some level, but maybe the better programs >simply know how to control what their competitors foolishly call luck ? Ok, then maybe we could invent a new word for the phenomenon that 3 consecutive tournaments with exactly the same programs give 3 different winners. How would you propose to call it? If you would play tournaments of 1000 rounds, however, it's pretty sure the same program wins every time. To paraphrase Percy agains Blackadder: So, what's NOT luck, but WORKS like luck. That's a good one mylord... Bas Hamstra.
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