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Subject: a little statistics - sometimes I can't resist :-)

Author: Stefan Zipproth

Date: 00:30:12 10/22/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 07:53:53, Brian Katz wrote:

>On October 21, 2002 at 07:40:54, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>It is well known that Deep Fritz 7 needs fast hardware to play at full strength.
>>And in this respect your P_II/350 MHz is indeed too slow and any comparison with
>>Fritz7 only a waste of time.
>>Kurt
>
>Thank you Kurt
>That is the answer I was looking for. I suspected that that might be the case.
>Thank you and Uri for your replies.
>Much appreciated.
>Brian

... no, that's not the answer. 8 games say nothing. Like it was said before, try
tossing a coin 8 times. Both sides have the same "winning" chances, but you will
easiliy get results like 5-3. To measure the difference between these two
engines significantly, you would need to play thousands (!) of games,
independend from time controls. This is simple math, but unfortunately no one
seems to believe it.

Just use ELOstat - or play another 8 :-)

Stefan



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