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Subject: Re: Amazing Upsets!!!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:38:45 05/09/98

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On May 09, 1998 at 03:09:26, odell hall wrote:

>Will someone please explain to me how my Chess Genius 3.0 running on a
>lowly 486 100mh dx4 was able to defeat Rebel 9 , Chessmaster 5555, and
>draw Fritz 5 at game in 30, and these programs ran on a mmx 166 pent!!!.

In computer chess the side with the hardware advantage or the best
program doesn't always win.

If you play roulette, the odds of any one number coming up aren't very
good, something like thirty-five to one.

If you bet on a number, and it came up, you wouldn't write a post
question why this happened.  You would immediately understand that you
got lucky.

The same thing is true in computer chess.  If you play two programgs
against each other, the weaker one, or the one on slower hardware, is
almost always going to score some points.

bruce



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