Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:47:55 09/03/99
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>And I say what you're saying is clearly wrong. Believe me, I learned this the >hard way during the last ten years of work on my own chess program. I often had >the case that in a first test match of about 30-40 games my program convincingly >won a match, than let it play another, longer match overnight and during the >next day, which it than lost. You always need the same amount of games, no >matter how the score is after a first, short match. My experience after hundreds >of test matches shows, that you need at least 70-80 games to be able to come to >a conclusion. And you need some hundred games to be sure. Even if the first 15 >games end in an 15-0 score. Because the next 15 games may end 0-15. This is a >frustrating fact, but it is *a fact*. > >Heiko. Except you are Torsten Czub and KNOW from 1 or 2 games which program is better/stronger by only looking at the moves and the evaluations during the game. :-)))
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