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Subject: You don't know that

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 10:40:04 08/15/00

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Hi!

>In my humble opinion, I think Chessmaster 6K or 7K is "stronger" than Crafty
>17.13, so I'm not surprised.

How on earth can you say that (well, of course I am not to say what you can say
or can't, but... ;)? Crafty 17.13 isn't even released yet. And besides, this is
not a matter of opinions. What do we mean when we say that a program is stronger
than another? I think we all agree that the program which gets more points
against another program is stronger, when number of games --> infinity, period.
And if people knew more about statistics they wouldn't make so many posts like
"Crafty won Rebel 1-0!! Something wrong with Rebel????" When two programs are
very equal you need many (100+ or even 1000+) games to see the true relation. 1
game means allmost nothing. One game means _a little_, but can't draw any
general conclusions on just one game...IMHO... :)

Severi



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