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Subject: Re: If 75 Games are not considered a Statistical proof, neither is the SSDF.

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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