Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 07:19:52 05/08/01
"Braingames explain their reasoning. "We made a simple decision. We wanted programs which could play on multi-processor platforms as they are obviously stronger candidates for the Kramnik match. There are really only three candidates: Fritz, Junior and Shredder. We made great efforts to persuade Shredder to play but they declined." They added that they unfortunately didn't have time for a tournament with 10 programs which would have taken too long to run. One of the main complainants was the company REBEL. Their TIGER program is a single processor prgram yet still finished second in the Cadaques event run by Prof. Irazoqui earlier in the year. They actually have a multi-processor version called DEEP TIGER but that wasn't announced until after the invitations were made." Shortage of time is now the weak(?) excuse. We know they had time for a 24 game match between two programs. This produces a winner with a degree of confidence that this winner is 'objectively' the best comp-comp program. Can anyone calculate this degree of confidence? If Tiger was included, then they would have been in the situation of needing to play a match between three programs. Since they were intending to play a three program match anyway (with Shredder as the third), one can assume that they'ld have had time to include Tiger anyway. However ..... But, and my question is this: suppose they played a 24 game match with three programs; my weak maths suggests that instead of each program playing 24 games (as in 2-player match), each program would play 16 games for a 24 game match with three players; then: what is the degree of confidence that the 'winner' is 'objectively' the best? Is it actually much different to the degree of confidence for the 2-player match? How many more games are needed to reach the same degree of confidence as the 2-player match? Is the 'time available' argument strong or weak?
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.