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Subject: Re: "It defeats 99% of players...."

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 15:46:10 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 18:26:12, Bigler wrote:

>On October 13, 2005 at 18:16:06, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Have any of you ever found an ad of a program or chess computer that promise
>>less than that magic number, 99%? Have you ever found one saying it defeats only
>>97.5% of all players?
>>Besides, as this happens since the 80', I would expect some ads saying by now
>>"it defeats 99,99% of all players".
>>I would expect the recognition of some progress.
>>No, always 99%.
>>Never a program promising to defeat just the guy that serves the coffee in the
>>chess club, but also never a better program defeating almost everyone on Earth.
>>No.
>>Just 99%
>>
>>
>>99% Regards
>>fernando
>
>This is normal :
>
>You have 100 players.
>
>You can win against 99 or 100 players.
>But you can not win against a .x player as it doesnt exists.
>

But if you have 1000 players the program might win against 995 of them.



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