Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:29:00 07/25/03
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On July 25, 2003 at 10:15:27, Dimitris Poulos wrote: >On July 25, 2003 at 00:19:14, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>>Why not simulate the tourney instead of coin flipping? >> >>Ok I'll do it. I don't have CM though, so how about some similarly rated free >>engines. It might be interesting to hold a tournament between, say, 5 Crafties, >>5 Yaces, and 1 Ruffian, and see if Ruffian still wins. All are similar in >>strength, but I think Ruffian is a bit stronger, so if Dann's theory holds up, >>Ruffian shouldn't win. I have a spare dual machine, so just tell me what you'd >>like to see (which engines, how many of each, time control, etc.). > >In my opinnion Dann misses the point that three first places is King. >In your experiment Ruffian should be ranked 4th if Dann is correct. If there were 200 games by each of the engines against the others that might be significant. As it is, it is practically irrelevant.
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