Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 15:49:54 02/18/01
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On February 18, 2001 at 18:25:05, mike schoonover wrote: >this is all well and good,but what does it mean when you through >in the theory,even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes! >i have seen GNU wipe out crafty17.3 playing the black side of >an alikine,where black lines up his white squared bishop on the h6 >b1 diagnle. >regards >mike It means that you are never 100% sure of anything... Suppose that you arrange a 10 game match with no prior knowledge whatsoever about the players and get the result 7-3 (win=6, Draw=2 and Loss=2). Claiming that A (who won the match) is better than B will get the probability of 91% to be true. The risk of claiming the wrong thing is 9%. That will happen now and then... Less games, more draws and/or closer to even scores will increase the risk of error for such a claim. Peter
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