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Subject: Re: Checkers: Las Vegas and Chinook

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 09:22:02 09/09/02

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On September 09, 2002 at 12:15:19, Uri Blass wrote:


>I do not know much about checkers and I never looked at the games but
>if the opponent cannot beat you when you play for a draw then it means that the
>opponent is not better than you.

The main question here is how you define "X being better than Y".

Posibilities:

(a) X gets more point in games against Y
(b) X gets more points in games against a variety of opponents
(c) insert_your_personal_definition_here

For chess, a good measurement for (a) are all the tournaments people in CCC hold
all the time. A good measurement for possibility (b) is ELO. (and analog for
checkers or any other game there is)

Concluding from (a) to (b) or vice versa is dangerous.

Sargon



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