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Subject: Re: The match is not over yet...

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:12:16 02/22/05

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On February 22, 2005 at 18:54:06, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>Maybe Shredder 9 will not score better than Shredder 7.04 in the match against
>Junior 9, but it will win...the problem are the statistics:
>
>the statistics are based on human games and do have mostly a negative effect as
>they tend to give a preference to the moves which did well to be played first
>and playing the alternatives later...normally the program will do better with
>the alternatives and therefore scoring better in the middle and end part of the
>match...
>
>I normally use statistics off...
>
>Sandro

I didn't understand. Is this an explanation how it is that Shredder 7.04 is
doing that much better, without it meaning it has something in it which is
superior to something which is in Shredder 9?
S.Taylor



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