Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 01:42:39 03/03/98
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On February 28, 1998 at 18:03:48, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On February 28, 1998 at 13:08:03, Andreas Mader wrote: > >> >>Sorry Thorsten, I have nothing against you and I respect your opinion, >>but from a statistical point of view all you write is pure nonsense. >> >>If you want to continue arguing on an irrational basis its ok (but >>nobody will take you seriously), but >> >>PLEASE >>PLEASE >>PLEASE >> >>stop trying to argue on a statistical basis. Believe me, what you are >>saying is absolutely irrelevant, wrong, nonsense and/or ridiculous. >> > > >Dear Andreas. No reason to become that personal. >Did I attack you ? > >We want 100 % the same. > >You don't understand me, as I can see from your statements. >Maybe what I say is to abstract for you. >But, when I say it with you own words, I would have to say: > >>What the SSDF does is correct when it comes to statistics. >> >>What the SSDF does is wrong IMO when it comes to the >>hardware/software-settings of Fritz 5. It's a pity! > > >!!! Exactly this is what I want to explain. > >The ssdf-guys do their statistics. And they do them right. As they have >ever done. But they do not measure chess strength ! > >You cannot measure something about chess if you don't look into the >games. >If somebody presents you only the soccer data, not the games themselves. >Only the bundesliga and their results, than you would not be able to >find out just out of the results, which club is the strongest. >I know YOU would claim that you could find out by looking at the >results. But this is not true. >You would measure again quantity. But not quality. Good spoken! A shorter simpler example: Crafty is not in the SSDF list. So it is a weak patzer? No it is a damned dangerous program. I know this, i play with it, i have seen many many games. "Dont believe to the statistic, if it not Your own fake" :-) Peter
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