Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:01:10 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 12:39:35, José Carlos wrote:
>On August 24, 2001 at 12:33:26, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2001 at 11:41:47, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>With these losses it is justified that Tiger didn't become single world
>>>champion. What is your explanation for this result? Did you play GT in
>>>aggressive mode? What made Tiger lose especially the last game vs. an amateur?
>>
>>
>>
>>I can answer your question if you answer mine:
>>
>>When you flip a coin, why is it head sometimes, and some other time it is tail?
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
> Are you saying that luck is the only reason? I should consider then
>participating with my engine... Sometimes it would be head, and sometimes
>tail...
>
> José C.
Absolutely.
I also wonder why nobody asked Amir what went wrong with Junior 7 when the SSDF
match against Tiger began with 5-1 in favor of Tiger...
It seems that people are now educated enough to understand that anything can
happen even in a 10 games match, but not enough to understand that one game
means very little. Strange, isn't it?
Or maybe it's because the game was played during the WMCCC? Naturally games
played in these magic events do not follow the basic rules of statistics. People
expect that a WMCCC game is 100% accurate, and that the strongest program (even
if it is stronger only by 10 elo points) is going to win.
To the "what went wrong..." question, I think I can answer now: what's wrong is
that people give so much importance to one game.
Sorry Harald, but your question has been getting on my nerves. I'm still amazed
that you asked...
Christophe
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