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Subject: Re: CCT Gambling!!

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 14:16:02 02/11/05

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On February 11, 2005 at 16:22:19, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Assume that there are only three engines in the tournament.
>Let's call them A, B and C.  A is from country X, while B and C
>are from country Y.  Assume that you think A has a 40% chance
>of winning, while B and C has a chance of 30% each.  Then A
>would be the *program* with the best chance of winning, but
>Y would be the *country* with the best chance of winning,
>despite the fact that program A is not from country Y.

Tord, possibly I belong to the group of people, you meant. I actually thought
exatly of the scenario (is this an English word) you describe here. I felt, it
is unlikely, Anthony meant exactly this. At least, he could have found better
words, if he did. I doubt it.

Cheers,
Dieter



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