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Subject: Re: Are you willing to bet on this?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 05:58:29 03/26/04

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On March 26, 2004 at 08:33:11, Slater Wold wrote:

>On March 25, 2004 at 23:22:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 25, 2004 at 23:06:01, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On March 25, 2004 at 21:48:27, ludicrous wrote:
>>>
>>>>Are you willing to bet that Chess Genius for Nokia 6600 cellphone will not win a
>>>>single game, nor even draw one, against Shredder 8 / Deep Fritz 8 with in blitz
>>>>time settings, in 100,000 games?
>>>>
>>>>Just a thought.
>>>
>>>It reads like a loaded question - show us the game if you have one.
>>
>>It would be a bad bet to take.  Why will someone make it?
>>
>>Win expectancy table:
>>
>>0 points is 0.5
>>100 points is 0.359935
>>200 points is 0.240253
>>300 points is 0.15098
>>400 points is 0.0909091
>>500 points is 0.0532402
>>600 points is 0.0306534
>>700 points is 0.0174721
>>800 points is 0.00990099
>>900 points is 0.00559197
>>1000 points is 0.00315231
>>1100 points is 0.00177512
>>1200 points is 0.000999001
>>1300 points is 0.000562025
>>1400 points is 0.000316128
>>1500 points is 0.000177796
>>1600 points is 9.999e-005
>>1700 points is 5.6231e-005
>>1800 points is 3.16218e-005
>>1900 points is 1.77825e-005
>>2000 points is 9.9999e-006
>>2100 points is 5.62338e-006 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  Here we are.
>>
>>So (for instance) if one of those top dog buggers is 2750 (relatively speaking)
>>then the phone thingy would only have to be 650 Elo to get even money.
>>
>>Now, things do break down in the tails.  But the math does not support a total
>>blanking.
>
>650 for even money, eh?
>
>Would you put $100 on a 1,000 Elo MAN to get at least 1 draw with 2750 computer,
>in 100,000 games?


definitely! After 99.999 Games his rating will have mucht improved (if he is
still alive) :-)

regards Joachim



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