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Subject: Re: At 2 hours per move, which is strongest program?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:38:24 01/10/01

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On January 10, 2001 at 16:30:37, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 10, 2001 at 12:44:38, David Wilke wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2001 at 11:57:23, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>Your statistics are impossible.  Please return to Florida, do not pass go and do
>>>a recount. :-)
>>>Jim
>>
>>I don't see how they are impossible. Certain programs either won, or lost
>>series. There was NO major loser that everyone beat up on.
>>
>>There was a ten game match between the programs, and the statistics are a
>>combined result.
>>
>>This was not a one game match. What don't you understand.
>
>Hello,
>Well for one thing, every time a program wins another one must lose.  This does
>not check out.  Second, if there are 8 programs then each program can only play
>70 games unless it plays a match against itself.  Third since one program has
>not played its 70 games yet that means that even more games are not accounted
>for.  It's impossible to have a tournament and everybody in the tournament have
>a winning score.  If you cannot see this then I can't help you.
>Jim

It's like the kid whose walk between school and home was uphill both ways!




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