Author: James T. Walker
Date: 15:17:15 01/21/03
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On January 21, 2003 at 14:49:36, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 21, 2003 at 07:33:46, James T. Walker wrote: >[snip] >>Playing Fritz 8 vs Chess Tiger 15 or something similiar is not equal to a coin >>toss. You are purposely distorting the issue with false analogies to try to >>prove a not so valid point. For instance a coin toss would be more like playing >>Fritz 8 vs Fritz 8. > >Everything is like a coin toss in a physical world. > >For instance, you turn on the light switch and the light comes on. Or does it? >Perhaps the bulb is burned. Perhaps the power grid is down. Perhaps there is a >fault in the switch. > >There is a great deal of randomness in everything in the physical world. >Randomness is deliberately built into chess programs. If they played in a >completely deterministic way, once you figured out a way to beat them, you would >win every time. > >For programs at the top, there is very little difference (according to >measurements). > >I am convinced that we will never know which of the top programs are strongest. >It should be easy enough to prove me wrong[*], but I doubt if anyone has the >time or the will to even attempt it. > >[*] In theory. In practice, I think a quintillion hours of computer time will >be hard to come up with. Dann,Dann,Dann, Every thing in the world is not like a coin toss. Please prove that simple statement and I will read the rest of your nonsense. Jim
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