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

Author: blass uri

Date: 20:21:02 05/25/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 19:42:57, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>>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?
>
>The behaviour cannot occurr for equal depths _unless_ for
>any "X <=> X" (_not_ "12 <=> 12" as erroneously written in
>the previous message) the scoring rates of White and Black
>suddenly become far different from 50%.

I think that Tom means to the following fact:
depth increases, the number of draws increases.

This can be right also for equal depth.

The question is if there are more draws in 12<==>12 than in 8<==>8

Uri



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