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Subject: Re: Odd that Tiger and Rebel are not there....

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:17:56 11/16/02

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On November 16, 2002 at 14:03:15, Lex Loep wrote:

>>Just looking at the endtable and saying "Tiger had no competition since it won"
>>is not very realistic.
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>My observation is not only based on the endtable of the dutch open. CT15
>went through a very long beta period in which thousands of games where
>played with CT15 coming on top.

In a short match many programs have practical chances of beating the strong
ones. Short matches are a sporting contest, it's not really statisticly
significant in any way.

> Or look at the SSDF list, the strongest
>amateur program is at place 21.

Actually Yace and Ruffian would probably be higher placed, and don't forget 21st
place is really ~10th if you don't count multiple entries from same author and
on different hardware.

>For me this means there is still a large
>gap.

I'm not so sure :)
I think the reason may be diminishing returns, going from 2600 to 2650 is heck
of a lot harder than going from 2300 to 2350.

-S.

>Lex
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