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Subject: Re: Nimzo 8 and Junior 6 are suppose to be equal in strength but !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:00:25 02/10/01

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On February 10, 2001 at 01:41:29, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On February 09, 2001 at 17:11:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>I Just checked the SSDF result of the match between Junior 6.0 vs Nimzo 8 on a
>>K6-2 450 MHz and Nimzo 8 was beaten bad by Junior 6.0, by a score of 26.0 to
>>14.0 points including draws. Now this score is compared to my previous match of
>>75 games at G\60 in which Junior 6.0 got the edge by 6.5 points using an AMD
>>K6-2 500 MHz with 128 MB SDRAM. But when I used the  Athlon 800 MHz the reverse
>>happened as far as score, not only it happened with my Athlon 800 MHz
>>but in a short match of 20 games at the Cadaque's Tourney, Nimzo also beat
>>Junior 6.0 by 11.5 to 8.5 using a pentium 933 MHz. Therefore, there is a
>>correlation in my judgement in assuming that as the speed of the processor
>>increases Nimzo 8 plays better chess than Junior 6.0.  Now I just finished
>>playing 4 games at 40\120 between Deep Fritz vs Nimzo 8 using my Athlon 800 MHz
>>and Nimzo 8 did not benefit from using the Athlon 800 MHz, the score is so far
>>W2 L1 D1 in favor of Deep Fritz. In this case there is also a correlation
>>between the score of Deep Fritz Vs Nimzo as there was on the Cadaque's match to
>>assume that Deep Fritz benefit more than Nimzo 8 as the speed of the processors
>>increases. Lets wait patiently to see what happen as the result is being
>>provided to us daily by Mr.Hans in the SSDF match of Nimzo 8 vs Deep Fritz. My
>>prediction for this match is that it will end up in favor of DF, but by a very
>>small margin.
>>
>>Pichard
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>
>
>Did I already mention the margin of errors of such short matches?
>
>Oh yes, I did.
>
>And you simply keep on ignoring basic statistics, and you keep on bringing over
>and over your point about Nimzo vs Junior.
>
>Oops... Maybe you have understood basic statistics in a special way? Maybe you
>think that by saying a statement over and over again you can decrease the margin
>of error of this statement until it eventually becomes true? A revolutionnary
>new theory? :)
>
>If you want to demonstrate your point, just play A LOT of games and post the
>result.
>
>    Christophe

75 games are by no mean considered short matches, and your basic statistics are
not precise measurements which equal to chess result.

Pichard



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