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Subject: Re: Games 8-11. Chess Tiger 12.0 - CM 7000 Total: 5.5-5.5 !!!

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 02:19:03 10/20/99

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On October 20, 1999 at 05:06:16, Didzis Cirulis wrote:

>On October 20, 1999 at 04:47:59, Martin Grabriel wrote:
>
>>Errr...shouldn't exact copy be excluded? I mean the winner already proved in the
>>game it outplayed the loser in a particular way, so it should not be counted
>>again if the game is repeated? IMHO
>
>That is a good question. I thought about it yesterday, and I decided to put this
>result into the match table, but mark it with *.
>
>Any SSDF member could tell me what do SSDF do with exact game copies... Do those
>games count for rating or not?
>
>Didzis

Well.... I found this on SSDF FAQ page:

*****
Q: When it happens that two computers repeat a game they have played before, are
both games included in the results in that case?

A: Yes, a game is allowed to continue even if the tester can see that it is
going to be a duplicate. Any program that's stupid enough to lose the same game
several times has but itself to blame. Furthermore, from a statistical point of
view this behaviour is not very important, since the program is just as likely
to repeat a win as a loss.
*****

Didzis Cirulis



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