Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 09:25:09 10/03/99
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On October 03, 1999 at 11:52:43, Howard Exner wrote:
>On October 03, 1999 at 09:17:38, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>The game against Hoffmann should _of course_ be counted. Say what happens if I
>>play a game with a cold in a tourniament ?
>
>
>This is not quite the analogy that comes to mind. A computer that shorts out, or
>has a power failer is more like a person having a total stroke or blackout
>during the game - or maybe having someone bonk you over the head causing an
>unconscious state.
>
>Or course if you are concerned about the game score then of course even
>someone dying at the chess table will not matter. But in the GM challenge
>the point is seeing how a computer program plays vs a human. Otherwise we may
>find ourselves with a rash of posts, "I beat Crafty in 10 moves!" When asked
>by the enquiring minds here on CCC, "How did you do that?", you could
>simply reply, "The power went out in my house, it refused to move so it
>lost on time! Yipee my rating just shot up!"
Rebel did not lose on time.
Obviously the game should count. In any scientific experiment,
arbitrarily throwing out data points is forbidden because it can easily
introduce biases that destroy the validity of the results. Any points thrown
out should be on the basis of a protocal establised before the experiment
starts. Experience has shown humans are generally incapable of making objective
decisions about this sort of thing. That is why double blind experiments were
invented.
James B. Shearer
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