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Subject: Re: A few programs fear to play at WBEC-Ridderkerk ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:20:21 09/03/05

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On September 03, 2005 at 06:45:14, David Mitchell wrote:

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>Money isn't the issue, I believe, in Zappa competing or not competing in a
>tournament, right now. Time is.

Sending Zappa to Leo is only few minutes so certainly time is not the problem
here.

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>I honestly can't imagine having a tester running my program in a large
>tournament, while I am trying to put the finishing touches on the program for
>it's initial commercial release.
>
>That's nothing but trouble. Let's say Zappa scored 50 elo points ahead of
>chessX. Now the commercial Zappa is released and it scores 40 elo points more
>than chessX, or 60 elo points more than chessX. Either way, everyone wonders
>why? What did AC do, "it's not like the beta...". Either way, AC and Zappa lose
>credibility.

No AC does not lose cradibility from this case because it is clear that there
may be a statistical error in the results.

Uri



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