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Subject: Re: Chess is not like coin tossing

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:32:55 05/21/01

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On May 21, 2001 at 21:20:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
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>I don't think you can learn much of anything by looking at a single game.

I agree that you cannot learn about 100 elo difference or 200 elo difference
from a single game but you still can learn more from one game then you learn
from the results.

Here is an extreme example:
If you look at a game when one of the players play random moves you can learn at
a short time more than you learn from the results.

Another example:
If you see that the first program is correct in pondering in 90% of the moves
when the second program is correct only in 70% of the cases then you learned
important information.

This kind of information can lead you to guess that the first program is faster
than the second program and it helps it to ponder correctly and it increase the
probability that the first program is better.

Uri



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