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Chess, Chance And Conspiracy, Mark Segal Dec 2006

Chess, Chance And Conspiracy, Mark Segal

Mark R Segal

Chess and chance are seemingly strange bedfellows. Luck and/or randomness have no apparent role in move selection when the game is played at the highest levels. However, when competition is at the ultimate level, that of the World Chess Championship (WCC), chess and conspiracy are not strange bedfellows, there being a long and colorful history of accusations levied between participants. One such accusation, frequently repeated, was that all the games in the 1985 WCC (Karpov vs Kasparov) were fixed and prearranged move by move. That this claim was advanced by a former World Champion, Bobby Fischer, argues that it ought …


Bayesian Predictive Information Criterion For The Evaluation Of Hierarchical Bayesian And Empirical Bayes Models, Tomohiro Ando Dec 2006

Bayesian Predictive Information Criterion For The Evaluation Of Hierarchical Bayesian And Empirical Bayes Models, Tomohiro Ando

Tomohiro Ando

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