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Subject: Re: Proving something is better

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 14:22:35 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 02:35:47, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>Match result math is rarely if ever done in the computer chess field.  Figuring
>out how to do this would be a *great* JICGA article, and it's amazing that
>nobody has felt the need to do this until now.  Being able to make positive
>statements about match scores would be worth something, you'd think, but 40
>years into computer chess research nobody has published this.

Rémi Coulomb has written an article (probably unpublished in any Journal). It is
available from his home page: http://remi.coulom.free.fr/WhoIsBest.zip

I have posted some code here, that gives some statistics about match results (on
a much more primitive level, based on Monte Carlo simulation).

Regards,
Dieter




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