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Subject: Re: Slightly different view created by PGNRES of CC tournament

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:52:16 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 06:46:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Chances are very good that your list is better.  However, with the number of
>games played, the real resolution of the results makes lower entries of
>approximately equal point score practically indistinguishable in real life.  In
>other words, the tie breaks are probably better than no tie breaks [since we
>have a strange penchant for wanting to put things into order], but we shouldn't
>suppose that we are defining the real ordering with accuracy.

Of course.

I'm not trying to pass off my list as the be-all and end-all of program strength
measurement.

But it does accurately measure the performance of each program for the ICC
tournament.

-Tom



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