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: <snipped> >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. <snipped> >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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