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Subject: Re: General Judgement about Positiontests and Testing as such

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:50:11 06/21/04

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On June 21, 2004 at 10:30:33, martin fierz wrote:

>On June 20, 2004 at 02:56:08, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>There is a simple way to verify if the "authors" are correct or not.
>>
>>They should state clearly how to evaluate all the solutions of the tests
>>comparing the hardware to the SSDF one, in order to create the Elo figure.
>>
>>Then by choosing the next release of 5 commercial programs which will be tested
>>by SSDF they have to predict the Elo for ALL 5 chess programs with a + - of 10
>>points.
>>
>>Than and indipendent tester should run the tests.
>>
>>If they fail, than they loose.
>>
>>Sandro
>
>+-10 elo, you must be kidding!
>the SSDF results themselves have larger error margins than that...

Yes, but the ratinglists don't list errors and rank programs with smaller
differences than 10 ELO.

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GCP



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