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. > >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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