Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 06:55:42 12/18/00
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>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. I don't understand. Where do you get that 7? Are you saying that the result 104-96 is significant? Or, even worse, 16-8 (this means nothing in practice)? Why not 8, 25 or 10056? I think there is no point to stop when difference is something. There _is_ a point to run a match with many games (500+). The closer the two programs are the more games you need to show the true difference. Also the learning abilities of both programs have to be taken in account. The chess community still seems to lack the knowledge on how to measure the strenght difference between two programs... Severi
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