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Subject: Re: Evaluation Accuracy

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:01:30 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 06:03:39, Graham Laight wrote:

>On November 17, 2000 at 19:24:23, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>
>>If your criterion of knowledge is based on accuracy of evaluation then I
>>respectfully apply for membership in the exclusive "knowledge based" club (and
>>IMO some members don't belong there).
>>
>>BTW, accuracy of evaluation is the best criterion for being knowledgable that
>>I'm aware of. I've posted here in the past that, to start with, we don't have a
>>real definition of what good evaluation means. This is the focus of my work with
>>Junior for more than a year.
>
>IMHO, a truly accurate evaluation of a position would yield one of the following
>3 ordinal values:
>
>Win
>Draw
>Lose
>
>-g

You are right but the problem is a practical problem.

It is easy to develop a program with less mistakes when the evaluation has only
3 values but it is not the target.

Uri



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