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Subject: Re: Opinions? A Crafty experiment...

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 12:51:13 05/24/04

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On May 24, 2004 at 12:06:46, Slater Wold wrote:

>In a thread below, there is a post about Blargh, ICCs top computer.  It has won
>60% of its games at standard time controls, and only lost 16% in almost 3,000
>games!
>
>I am interested to know the OoO (opinion of outcome) of EVERYONE at the
>following experiment, I will be in contact with the operator of Blargh, and will
>try to set this up.
>
>Crafty 19.13 on an AMD FX53 (64-bit) vs Shredder 8 on a Dual Opteron 2.2Ghz
>(32-bit)
>
>10 game match.  120/0.

A 10 game match is pretty short so there is a decent chance of an upset.  For
examaple, assuming that both sides are about equal strength (not a valid
assumption here, but it illustrates the point) there is almost a 20% chance that
one side will win 7-3.

>
>Opinions?



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