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Subject: Re: I will continue the match until there is a diffence of 7 games

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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