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

Author: Bigler

Date: 23:43:02 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 18:46:10, Mike Hood wrote:

>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.


Yes but they talking about % and not °/°°

regards  :-D



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