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Subject: Re: Junior - Crafty NPS Challenge - a user experiment

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 00:52:25 11/22/03

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On November 22, 2003 at 00:55:50, Slater Wold wrote:

>If the 233mhz doesn't die first, here's my prediction:
>
>You play MORE than 12 games. Crafty wins, but with so many draws, >it'll "cancel" any *real* proof the match might have given.

Nonsense. If he plays on till the score DIFFERENCE is 6 points,
it's staticstically a very valid result (somewhere >90 or >95%
certainty).

This holds pretty much regardless of the actual amount of games
that is played. Someone with more time can calculate the exact
values but I'm pretty sure the above holds.

--
GCP



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