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Subject: Re: Amazing Upsets!!!

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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