Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 01:36:04 01/28/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 22:55:51, Michael Neish wrote: >Anyone could do this in a few minutes. I ran a Cadaques-style tournament >between seven fictitious computer programs, i.e., seven programs play each other >over matches consisting of 20 games each, 420 games in total for the whole >tournament. > >I made the following assumptions: > >1) The computers are all of equal strength. > >2) The probability of a win, draw or loss are one-third each. > I did exactly the same for me, Kasparov, Anand and Kramnik. Turns out that each of us wins approximately the same number of times. A real eye-opener. Damn, I should have entered Wijk aan Zee -- my chances would have been just as good as anybody else's.
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