Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 07:48:49 12/18/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 09:55:42, Severi Salminen wrote: >>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 Okay I will run this tourney up to 200 games, and will post the result as soon as the tourney is over, or will Email the PGN games to anybody interested. Pichard.
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