Author: fca
Date: 13:04:44 08/16/98
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On August 16, 1998 at 15:05:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On August 16, 1998 at 14:21:20, fca wrote: >>O'Donnell(IM) v MCP7 0.5 - 9.5 >>O'Donnell(IM) v CG5 0.5 - 9.5 >I have seen programs beat grandmasters as many as 16 times in a row at 5 0. Surely so (some of such games may be "punch drunk" syndrome stuff though, after the first few losses - computers never see red, never get emmotional or disheartened etc.). But *not* vs a 166MHz Pentium and 10 0 and in a prepared match, I suggest. ;-) Of course, the purpose of my quoting the results was to highlight that a simple end-result does not tell the whole story. The matches v CG5 and v MCP7 were qualitatively very different. Kind regards fca PS: I've just spotted your questions to me in the earlier post in the thread, and have replied to them. In that vein, may I mischievously point out that there is a difference between a "match" and a "sequence". Let a reasonable program play against any GM for long enough, and somewhere in the sequence you will find 16 consecutive wins for the program. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, such sequences are "normal" (this has nothing to do with normal distributions, this is like Liouville's number etc.)... pi is normal, which is why *I know* that somewhere in its decimal expansion are 58,124,760 consecutive "zero" digits, exactly. In fact, not just in one place, but in infinitely many such places.
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