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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