Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 12:32:53 09/27/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 15:10:06, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> Overwhelming evidence of fraud and corruption. The probabilities that >> you or anyone had to be conceived and born are almost infinitesimal. >> Therefore, and according to your statistics , you probably don't exist. > >Not exactly the same. If you give some general properties, such as >"only programs from CB on top hardware" than it is perfectly legitimate >to compute in how many ways such properties are satisfied compared to all >possible combinations. It is conceptually no different than estimating >the odds of "4 dice giving 6" etc. While generally it would not have >occured to me to even look at the odds here, there was an ongoing >controversy with SSDF and their pro-CB bias, so much so that they have >a response to the accusations on their web page. > >The fact that, just in time for the Christmas shopping season, they hand-picked >4 CB products to be at the top of their chart (by virtue of putting them, >and only them, on top hardware) only adds another bit to the existent picture. >If they had only limited number of fast machines, there are so many other >ways to arrange tests to be even-handed and fair to all other programs, >that no amount of the rationalizations on their web page can explain it. > >In addition to this latest pick and the earlier controversy about the >proprietary CB autoplayer, one can also question their allowing their >testers to mostly overlook the problems with killer books, opponent >recognition, and other similar tricks. Since such gimmicks are well known, >there should be in place a set of effective and strict measures to detect >such and disqualify offending programs, or at least disqualify their >results achieved by such means (unrelated to program's chess playing >quality/strength, as would be perceived by an end user). Next list should appear in november and should in this case be the christmas-list. Hopefully we can include programs like Chess-tiger, Rebel-Century and maybe the upcoming Shredder4 in the next list, if we receive them in time. I guess if these programs don´t top our list or if they do, people like you could always find something else that could be questioned. Bertil SSDF
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