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Subject: Re: Waltzing Matilda (was: statistics, 10 events tell us what ?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 06:33:10 08/16/98

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On August 16, 1998 at 09:01:58, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>I am not saying that I concentrate only on the result.  You can look at the
>games and identify situations that develop for one reason or another, and you
>can identify strong or weak moves and make improvements based upon this.
>Looking at games is very useful, but it is time intensive.

true.

>You can generate a huge quantity of results while you are asleep.  You get a
>datum from the game without having to do anything to get it other than set a
>computer to work to generate it.

Right. I do the same with the autoplayers. Therefore I like the chrilly
donninger autoplayer and the fact that programmers have supported it in the
past...


>And a series of enough of these data points might tell you something with more
>accuracy than a more labor intensive study of individual games can.

right. this is true. I only wanted to point out that talking about throwing a
coin and chess games is not the same, because chess-games give us much more
data to analyse BESIDE the results.

This was my point. I like to proof my thesis with autoplayer results too.



>bruce



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