Author: Amir Ban
Date: 08:06:59 05/09/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 03:38:45, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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 All true, but more easily believable if the opponent is CG 3.0 than probably any other program in existence. Amir
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