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

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 14:43:43 12/18/00

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On December 18, 2000 at 10:48:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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.

That begins to sound interesting. 200 games match still has some error margins
but we'll see a lot from that result. I'm looking forward for the results - not
too often someone runs a 200+ match here in CCC, thanks!

Severi



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