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Subject: Re: The marvelous showing of GnuChess at CCT3

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 01:08:44 05/29/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 23:42:55, Dann Corbit wrote:

>My mistake.  The programs played 8 games.  I thought it was the classical swiss
>format where it takes only log2(entries) to complete.  The log base 2 of 32 is
>5.  Since there were 8 games, I am not sure what format was in place.

Well, you're excused. The number of rounds were kept a secret until the very
end. I placed my bet on nine, but I'll never see that money again ;-).

>In any case, 8 games is pretty slim also.  If the programs are about equal, it
>will take a very high number of games to find out who is really stronger.

An obvious fact can never be repeated too often.

>But since you asked "which 5?"  I'll say the first 5 of "deep-junior/deep-fritz"
> Or the last 5.  Take your pick.

I liked games 14-18, but that's just me.

Mogens.



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