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Subject: Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf.

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 15:00:34 05/24/00

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On May 24, 2000 at 17:27:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I have a bit of a puzzle.
>
>In these experiments, you varied the depth from 5 to 12 plies, but in the "goes
>deep" experiments, it was deeper, if I recall correctly.
>
>In the earlier experiments, it seemed to level out.
>
>I would like to see control matches where the plies are equal.
>IOW, 5:5, 6:6 up to 12:12.
>In that way, you will know what the gain of the extra ply is.  I don't think you
>can tell clearly strictly from the data given.
>
>For example, in your 12 <==> 11 experiment, you show 35.71% wins, 52.38% draws,
>and 11.9% losses.  What would the result be for 12:12?
>

Since he was playing Fritz 6 vs Fritz 6, the answer must be 50%.

--Peter



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