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Subject: Re: I think TIGER is mega strong and a great improvement Don't PLAY MORE!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:44:52 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 19:20:20, stuart taylor wrote:

>On October 02, 2002 at 16:55:35, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2002 at 11:42:05, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2002 at 08:43:01, robert flesher wrote:
>>>
>>>>You have only played 3 games and that is not enough to draw a conclusion on!
>>>>Look at the results on this forum you will see tiger is plenty strong and
>>>>STRONGER that this new ruffian. Try the normal setting of Tiger as Christophe
>>>>states it is the strongest. Better yet post some game in which you beat it! Then
>>>>we all will be please, However i wont! hold my breath. Cheers~
>>>
>>>If in the first 3 games Tiger lost to ruffian, and Tiger seemed not to even have
>>>claws, then I would NOT say play more. I would say that it is virtual evidence
>>>either that Tiger is not all that great, or that something else was wrong, in
>>>this case-I'd think the later.
>>>
>>>A strong machine should be seen to be "playing chess", unlike a strong human who
>>>might just be having a bad day.
>>>3 games lost, is 100% loss throught three games. And the first 3 games are
>>>statistically much more substantial than any other 3, even consecutive,
>>>somewhere later on. (because, why the very first three?).
>>
>>Are you just trolling?
>>
>>pgn -D
>> 1 DEEP FRITZ  2w0 2b0 2w0 2b0 2w0 2b= 2w= 2b1 2w= 2b= 2w= 2b0 2w= 2b= 2w1 2b1
>>2w1 2b0 2w= 2b1 2w= 2b1 2w1 2b= 2w1 2b1 14.0 312.0 168.00 26
>> 2 DEEP JUNIOR 1b1 1w1 1b1 1w1 1b1 1w= 1b= 1w0 1b= 1w= 1b= 1w1 1b= 1w= 1b0 1w0
>>1b0 1w1 1b= 1w0 1b= 1w0 1b0 1w= 1b0 1w0 12.0 364.0 168.00 26
>
>I didn't believe that these order of results were arbitrary. It looked very much
>like this Fritz was very great at learning against this Junior.
>  It happened more than once like this between these two very rivals and
>versions.

It may or may not have been arbitrary.  The same thing happens in SSDF results
all the time.

Will it look strange if a coin toss experiment starts off with 10 heads in a
row?  Sure, a little strange.  But it happens.



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