Author: David Wilke
Date: 06:50:37 01/30/01
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On January 30, 2001 at 09:14:48, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >On January 30, 2001 at 09:06:09, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Ever since I matched Nimzo 8 vs Junior 6 using my AMD K6-2 500 MHz and also >>matched them using my Athlon 800 MHz at G\60 and got different scores; some >>people argued that those games were not statistically significants to proof >>anything at all. Then we must disregard the SSDF rating list, since each Chess >>program only play 40 games against each other and not 200 games. > >I think that you have misunderstood how SSDF works. > >ex.: Which rating is the most reliable: > >1. 400 games played with 200 games against 2 others from the SSDF-list >2. 400 games played with 40 games against 10 others from the SSDF-list > >I´m sure it´s nr. 2. If it is number 2, then that really only shows the possibility of an overall rating, not a rating vs one program. It could also not show a true rating, as the program faces programs on weaker hardware.
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