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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:24:08 01/30/01

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On January 30, 2001 at 23:12:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>I agree that if I play games against old GNU chess versions, I don't see that
>kind of nonsense very often, and that most of this is highlighted by the fact
>that the two versions I am testing are _very_ close to each other, making the
>test very difficult to interpret.

Which brings up an interesting point -- with close engines we *do* have a sort
of unstable equilibrium.  It could take ten thousand matches before we find out
if some small change produces an incremental value.

So how *do* we check to see if an idea is a good one?




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