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

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:42:22 05/25/00

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On May 24, 2000 at 18:00:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>The idea is ok, but I don't like the concept of playing program X vs itself
>with different depths.  Your conclusion can easily be right for Fritz, but
>wrong for other programs...  It would be hard to draw conclusions based on
>testing only one program that is known to be very fast but not very 'smart'.

It is better than nothing.  Up until now, we didn't really have any good data
for any program.  It is interesting to know that Elo increase doesn't *have* to
be linear due to some natural law or something.

bruce

• Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. Andrew Dados 11:41:32 05/25/00
  • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. Ernst A. Heinz 13:16:40 05/25/00
    • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. Andrew Dados 15:13:18 05/25/00
      • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. blass uri 20:50:29 05/25/00
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