Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 07:15:26 05/22/01
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On May 21, 2001 at 21:20:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >... > >I don't think you can learn much of anything by looking at a single game. I >remain thoroughly unconvinced, despite the many experts who say otherwise. And >if you could learn something by looking at a single game, a trial of 500 games >will likely bring out the same finding if it is correct. And if not, the wrong >guess is likely to be exposed. Therefore, there is little to be learned from >trying to make a judgement based upon a single observation. I disagree. You can learn quite a lot from an interesting machine game. You can learn about specific strengths and weaknesses of the players. In some games I 've got very obvious hints how to improve. However you can't reliably derive the playing strength in terms of ELO of whatever kind. I guess, this was your point, Dann ? Uli > >IMO-YMMV.
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