Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 08:17:15 01/06/01
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On January 06, 2001 at 11:02:07, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 06, 2001 at 10:30:58, Peter Kasinski wrote: > >>On January 06, 2001 at 10:07:16, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >> >>>On January 06, 2001 at 08:46:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>You should let that match continue up to 50 games, instead of 40 games. >>>> >>>>Pichard. >>> >>>Why? >> >>I guess to increase the chance that Fritz will be ahead by then, which as we >>know (given a long enough series of games) is a mathematical certainty at some >>point in _any match_. >> >>:-) > >I do not know that it is a mathematical certainty. > >Even if program A has better rating than b it does not prove that A is better >than B in a match so it is possible that Deep Fritz will never lead the match >when the number of games is not important. > >Uri A program can lead the match at some point _without_ being necessarily better than the opponent. That's actually the point. PK
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