Author: James T. Walker
Date: 21:17:43 02/27/01
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On February 26, 2001 at 17:17:02, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >Clearly and considering that you have played just 4 games, nobody has made "a >job" of the other. That sounds as an statement of superiority, but please >correct me if my interpretation of the common usage of the word is wrong. In any >case with just one game more for Tiger you have equal result. Just one game and >all changes in his appearance. So I suppose we could say a program makes "a job" >of another if an only, by example, in 100 games it wins 80 or more. Less than >that there is not a job at all, but sheer statiscal chance. But of course all >this is just a matter of wording. Looking at the games I tend to see a very >similar strenght. What do you think? >Cheers >Fernando Hello Fernando, Well of course 4 games means nothing if you are trying to determine if one computer program is better/worse than the other. But it was 3-1 so one more win would not make it equal. It would be 3-2 and yes 75% is pretty strong so in a match of only 4 games a 3-1 score is doing a job. In no way am I saying it means that Shredder is much better than Tiger. In fact in my opinion Shredder is not as good as Tiger at game/60. But if I lost a match over the weekend to anyone by 3-1 I would say they did a job on me. That does not mean that I will not return the favor next time! :-) Jim
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