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Subject: Re: Can someone here enhance the next SSDF list please.

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 21:30:37 11/19/99

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You are absolutely right, Tina. It is ridiculous  to say that one chessprogram
is better than the other because it is 5 points better. On the other hand it is
impossible to say where the limit is, where you can say it. A program can,
strictly mathematically, be better even if it is 500 eloratings below another
and they have played with each other 5000 matches. As another guy in this group
said. It is not impossible to get highest winning ticket a milliard time on a
row on a lottery. And I say that if you try to buy tickets enough times it is
improbable that you not get the highest winning ticket milliard times on a row,
even in the biggest lottery in the world.  I can understand this mathematically,
but it is hard for me to believe it. Maybe Good has given us our way to think
mathematically as a joke.

Georg




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