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

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 17:38:06 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 19:44:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Ok I was just making a point. I don't think the only knee-jerk reaction should
be simply "play more games".
S.Taylor



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