Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 22:59:56 11/03/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 00:51:18, Peter Skinner wrote: >On November 03, 2000 at 23:37:35, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On November 03, 2000 at 15:43:50, Daniel Chancey wrote: >> >>>CMSilver is 0-2 now. CMSilver lost to CMKing+ 5.5-4.5 (+3 -4 =3) and was >>>crushed by CMQueen+(!) by a score of 7.5-2.5 (+2 -7 =1) >>> >>>I might discontinue the matches if it's clear that CMSilver isn't playing like >>>the Chessmaster Open that it won. >>> >>>The next opponent is CM6000 sel.10 >>> >>>Castle2000 >> >>This post is not an attack. >> >>Have you ever done any research in order to figure out what the odds are that >>these results could be due to chance? >> >>Here are a couple of ways to make a decision: >> >>1) Research an issue thorougly and make the decision you think is best. >>2) Flip a coin. >> >>You are trying to decide which of these personalities is best. But are you >>doing it by making a sound decision, or are you flipping a coin? And if I could >>prove to you that you were just flipping a coin, would it matter to you? >> >>bruce > >Odd Bruce that you take such a stupid stance on the matter, when just the other >day on ICC you were stating that one revision of Ferret wasn't playing as well >as another. Yet you seemed to think that everyone cared, or that everyone there >was seriously interested whether one version was better than the other. None are >public, so why should anyone really care? > >Isn't that sort of the same thing? > >We were only watching the game, just as we are reading posts on the forum here. > >Daniel is interested in ChessMaster personality settings, and their strengths, >why should he not be able to post about the tournaments he holds with them? > >If you are not interested, why read the post, and make such a lame remark about >it. Just don't read it. Don't come on and be a troll about it. > >Grow up. How *I* read Bruces intention was totally different. IMO he tried to hint that those short matches Daniel does may carry little or no hint as to which version is better (statistics again). I perssonally think that, for example, CM selectivity setting has effect highly dependand on processor speed and game time, so there is probably no CM version better then others without regard to those 2 factors... etc, etc... -Andrew-
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