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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.6 vs Hiarcs 7.32 Its only one game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:32:17 06/14/99

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On June 15, 1999 at 00:27:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
[snip]
>Sorry, it lookes that I worked too much today and all this weekend... Of course
>my first message was right. If program/player A beats program/player B in the
>first game, and we have no additional information, that means that there is high
>probability that program/player A is not much worse than program/player B.
>Nothing more, nothing less.
Which begs the question, "How high is the probability?"

I don't think we know.  The uncertainty after a single game is so large, all we
have is a crude dividing line and even that is a guess.

Extrapolation from a single game is err.... "inaccurate."




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