Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 08:47:17 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 04:36:04, Frederic Friedel wrote: >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. Brilliant! Count me in! Darn, had I entered too does that mean that our respective chances for winning the Wijk would've been halved or quartered --- I tend to get confused with statistics? *** Djordje
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