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Subject: Re: CM SKR winning 60% of games against Genius 7 (modified settings)as White

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:15:50 10/10/03

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On October 10, 2003 at 09:16:01, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On October 09, 2003 at 23:40:34, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>
>>After 20 games with Chessmaster SKR playing White the score is 12W 5L 3D against
>>Genius 7 with modified settings.  I plan on playing 5 more games with
>>Chessmaster playing White and then swap colors for another 25 games.  All games
>>were played on an AMD 1800+ ponder off with one hour for each side.  I've read a
>>number of times about how programs usually get more wins as White than when they
>>are playing the Black pieces but I don't remember the difference.
>>
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>Chessmaster had 13,5 points out of 20 possible. So it has a more impressive
>score of 67,5% against Chess Genius and not 60% as you said.

The title is winning 60% of games and it is clear that the title is correct and
does not mean what you assume.

Winning 60% of the games gives no information about the result and it can be 12
win and 8 losses or 12 wins and 8 draws.

Uri



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