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We giveaprobabilistic analysis fortherandomized game tree evaluation algorithm of Snir. We firstshow thatthere exists an input suchthatthe running time,measured as the number of external nodes read by the algorithm,on that input is maximal in stochastic order among all possible inputs. For this worst case input we identify the exact expectation of the number of external nodes read by the algorithm...