Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 15:42:42 05/25/00
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On May 25, 2000 at 18:19:57, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On May 25, 2000 at 15:55:03, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: > >>>Sounds to me like you should test this for the same reason >>>that you did the "X <=> X+1" test. >> >>Sounds to me that you still do not accept or understand the >>qualitative difference between the cases ... >> >>=Ernst= > >I'm not even suggesting that the cases are remotely similar. > >I'm simply continuing the point of this thread, namely, you noticed that as >depth increases, the number of draws increases and the number of wins decreases. >Your conclusion is that this behavior is due to unequal depths. But wouldn't it >be interesting if the behavior also occurred with equal depths? > Ahh, I see - your point is that the percentage of draws in X:X matches might change, even though the overall score stays at 50%. This makes sense - the draw percentage should definitely increase with depth. But, I don't blame Ernst for not investigating this, as it doesn't seem nearly as interesting as quantifying the change in relative playing strength from ply-to-ply. --Peter
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