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Subject: Re: Very little!

Author: Arnold Gove

Date: 11:56:53 12/27/05

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I'm not sure how much we can conclude from just a handful of opinions like
these.

On December 27, 2005 at 14:53:12, stuart taylor wrote:

>On December 27, 2005 at 14:40:57, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>I enjoy this tournment, but the standings are based on only 20 games or so. This
>>means the final ranking is probably unreliable (and would probably change if
>>another 20 games were run).
>>
>>So im not sure how much we can conclude from this tournment
>
>I think it is obvious that it is not worth all that much, except for publicity.
>Humans like publicity, and festive moods. But that doesn't always say what the
>actual value of something is.
>
>I'm not even sure either if human world championships mean much either. Well,
>maybe they ARE worth more with fewer games, than with machines. I'm not sure.
>
>But, in this forum, for a few years already, it's always been strongly claimed
>repeatedly "not enough games".
>
>Yes, I don't agree it should have to be like that. A game isn't a potato, that
>you say that less than 500 kilo's is wortheless to me (to open a warehouse, or
>so).
>But for sure, these few games don't give much of a chance. BUT they DO say
>SOMEthing. And even that, is only my own opinion, and even that opinion means
>more, if you can study the games in depth, to see where each program is really
>"coming from".
>S.Taylor



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