Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:37:11 05/01/04
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>>"Consistently" is not a mathematical word :)
>>
>>So it depends how you read "winning consistently", it could mean just winning on
>>average, or it could mean it wins all the time ie. never losing or even drawing.
>>
>>I think the latter is too strong, ie. if you have the match results
>>60-40, 55-45, 89-11, 48-52, 61-39....
>>
>>I'd still say one engine here is winning consistently, ie. it is who wins on
>>average that is the most obvious interpretation.
>
>
>see http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?362354
>winning consistently means that usually Shredder win a match of 4 games.
>
>Of course it is not well defined and the question how you read usually but I
>will say that it means more than 50% of the matches.
>
>If Fritz wins 40% of the matchs of 4 games when Falcon wins 30%
>of these matchs then Fritz does not beat Falcon consistently inspite of the fact
>that it is slightly better by that definition
>
>Uri
I think you're wrong Uri here. You are perfectly free to adopt a lawyer's
position and try to change the words or interpretation to mean whatever you
like, but that only serves to try to prove a person correct (whether they are or
not) as opposed to seeking the truth. The issue isn't on how many different ways
it can be interpreted, but on what the obvious way it will be understood, and
whether this obvious way is representative of the truth. If it isn't then the
person is misleading and that is wrong.
Let me put it another way: suppose I said truthfully, "I can and do beat
Kasparov in chess regularly". Just read that small statement and read the
natural conclusion one should reach.
Of course, I am not really saying I beat him on equal conditions. I actually
beat him regularly after he has had 2 bottles of Vodka and is playing blindfold.
So what I said ("I can and do beat Kasparov in chess regularly") isn't
incorrect, but it is GROSSLY misleading.
Albert
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