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Subject: Re: Comet A.96 - Wcrafty15.20 20 games blitz match

Author: Nouveau

Date: 05:03:03 10/21/98

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On October 21, 1998 at 05:22:07, blass uri wrote:

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>On October 21, 1998 at 04:43:02, Nouveau wrote:
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>>On October 20, 1998 at 11:45:57, blass uri wrote:
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>>>On October 20, 1998 at 10:37:36, Nouveau wrote:
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>>>>Why do we need hundreds, maybe thousands of games between computers to evaluate
>>>>relative strength, when few dozens are more than needed for human GMs ?
>>>
>>>I do not think that few dozens are more than needed for human GMs
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>>Say a 40 games match between GM X and GM Y with the result :
>>X-Y = 24-16.
>>Is it false to say : X IS stronger then Y ?
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>If there were 24 wins and 16 losses then I am not sure if X is stronger than Y
>If there were 8 wins and 32 draws then I think we can say X is stronger than Y

Between two GMs 24 wins and 16 losses would be suspicious, wouldn't they ?

But I think we agree : let's forget a litlle bit about the stats and have a look
at the games !

Jeff

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>Uri
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>>Jeff
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>>>Uri
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>>>>Jeff



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