Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 06:42:56 12/18/00
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On December 17, 2000 at 23:25:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >1. If I counted correctly, this match ended dead even, so "much better" >seems to be wrong. > >2. 17.14 is not significantly stronger than 17.13 IMHO. There were a few >minor eval fixes, and a few minor bug fixes. But I doubt that the difference >between the two is really discernable. > >3. 24 games isn't enough to tell much anyway. you need 10x that many >games to _really_ draw any accurate conclusion... I agree with you that 24 games isn't enough, but 200 games is not really necessary if one of the two programs reach a difference of over 7 games, in which at that point I will stop the match. More likely this won't happen since these two programs are too evenly match so far. Pichard.
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