Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 19:18:58 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 13:39:03, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 11:43:10, Drazen Marovic wrote: > >> The sad thing is, if rebel had lost by a measly half point countless here >>would still try to deny comps gm strength. > >There is not enough evidence to confirm or deny the assertion either way. > >The 1/2 point swing in the other direction (for the comp) is no different. But >in any case, there are certainly not enough games to make a logical statement. >Only an emotional one. That is a false dichotomy. I know it very well, because it was the foundation of my whole world, twenty years ago. Sorry if that sounds condescending, but I am taking the opportunity to say a few things. Between logic and emotion is a vast grey area in which people must function. For example, I KNOW, without needing hard proof, that Shakspeare was a better poet than I. More accurately, I JUDGE him to be better, using my own judgement, and I believe my judgement is adequate in this case, without proof. It is not logic, but many important decisions are made in this realm! Will you accept this much? Judgement is a tool for measuring chess strength too, especially the judgement of Grandmasters. The opinion of a GM is a datum, which while not as hard as a match score, is more interesting, for one, and more enlightening with respect to the real chess-issues that interest us. Well, chess is somewhere between a coin-toss and poetry, and I think the computer-chess world, meaning you and Christophe Theron and others, are making some interesting and important mistakes in its application of statistics, which I might write about sometime. You say that THE MATCH SCORE ITSELF is not enough to make a decision. Yes, and that is EXACTLY what makes the Grandmaster's JUDGEMENT so valuable in such cases! Do you understand this, and agree? My opinion is that he was not doing statistics, he was just posting his intuition and judgement, for what its worth. How much is it worth? I would usually weigh a Grandmaster's (carefully considered) opinion more highly than the match score itself, within reason.
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