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Subject: Re: Fritz wins !

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 14:07:38 05/01/01

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On May 01, 2001 at 16:03:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>Suppose there is a match of 240 games and the result after 50 games is 50-0 and
>after 240 games the result is 120-120.
>
>What is going to be your opinion in that case?
>
>Are you going to guess that the leader did better opening preperation?
>
>Another possible guess in that case is that the second program had a better
>learning function and they learned from the games to change their evaluation
>function or to do better extensions and it may be also both of these factors
>together with some luck.

I would rather not guess on a match like that. But unless it was clear that the
program losing the first fifty games suffered shortly after the opening in all
the games, I would go with chance influenced to some (unknown) degree by
learning. It also would depend on the level of modifiable settings like you
mention. But I don't know how much the authors could change during the
Fritz-Junior match, if any.

Mogens.



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