Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:44:54 01/31/01
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On January 31, 2001 at 20:17:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I expressed very forcefully that a 10-0 result was more valid than a 60-40 >result. > >I've done some experimental tests and it appears that I'm wrong. > >I have no idea why. Probably the model is too simple. Since chess comes in won/loss/draw, it is more difficult to achieve an accurate representation, perhaps. Your model of the model that you programmed might also be wrong. ;-) I use the Mersenne Twister PRNG for random simulations. It has truly excellent properties. With a 10-0 result, the error bars will still be pretty enormous. Even at 60-40 they will be over 100 ELO, I imagine. I would like to get a copy of your simulation code to look it over, if you don't mind. (I once ran imaginary coin flips for 14 days on a PII 350 MHz).
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