Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:59:02 08/25/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 19:44:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 24, 2001 at 19:14:34, Harald Faber 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 >> >>I hoped you wouldn't answer that way. >>1st: IMO Tiger is the strongest program available, even if slightly ahead of the >>others. >>2nd: I am not disappointed about the Tiger result as you may suppose. >>3rd: I am only curious how the rock solid and tactical safe Tiger could lose a) >>vs. SOS (I'd have bet a lot that at least a draw is the worst result the Tiger >>plays vs. an amateur) > >1)The gap between tiger and the best amatuers is not so big that tiger cannot >lose one game Ya, but I'd expect the number of games Tiger loses vs. an amateur is not so high so that I'd expect only a probability of not more than 20-30%. So IMO this was a very unlikely result. >What are the mistakes that tiger did that the commercial version can avoid? I haven't compared with my Tiger here because my computer is much slower than the used one and I don't have the spen times sso re-playing does not make much sense. I bet that more than 5 moves wil be different if I'd try to reproduce Tiges moves. >>Why am I curious and astonished? Because I have seen *many* SUPERIOUR games >>Tiger played. Of course he loses from time to time, but not vs. anyone and >>especially Jeroen's opening preparation usually gives Tiger some advantage. That >>makes me wonder. > >Tiger is not god >Tiger can lose vs every strong amatuer if you play enough games. > >Uri Maybe I am too convinced of Tigers strength that I cannot imagine a loss vs. an amateur?! :-)
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