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Subject: Re: Is Crafty 18.10 the final version?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 08:18:50 09/04/01

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On September 04, 2001 at 10:59:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>>>Crafty 17.14              2563    300  259  18  23  268.0  89.3  2207
>>>Crafty 18.10              2561    372  309  43  20  330.5  88.8  2212
>>>Crafty 17.12              2516    192  149  27  16  162.5  84.6  2225
>>>Crafty 18.07              2492    336  261  41  34  281.5  83.8  2211
>>>
>>>Only sure thing is, that 18.7 was weak...
>>
>>Sure ??? Are you kidding ? Look at the error bars.
>>These results are very well compatible with the statement that Crafty 18.07 is
>>the strongest version. The statistics is far too poor to say anything.
>>Uli
>
>No
>
>2563-23>2492+41 so it seems clear that 17.14 is better than 18.07 even in the
>optimistic assumption for 18.07 and the passimistic assumption for 17.14
>
>I believe that these results clearly suggest that 18.07 is not the strongest
>version.

It's rather obvious judging from the comment made by Uli, that he thought that
the two numbers following the rating were the error bars. That would be a more
prudent assumption than the inability to understand simple arithmetic.

Mogens.



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