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Subject: Re: Fritz5 disaster !

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 01:56:21 03/03/98

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On March 03, 1998 at 04:38:17, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On March 03, 1998 at 04:23:21, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>Your results don't mean anything. You can't quesion hundreds of games
>>which have been played by the SSDF by playing a couple of games. When
>>you play 100 games, your result still has a statistical uncertainty of
>>about 100 ELO points (order of magnitude). In order to derive a safe
>>conclusion, you have to play that many games. I know it's a pity but
>>that's life.
>>
>>Regards, Uli
>
>But what about the independence of samples (games) when the SSDF results
>are full of doubles?
>
>I.e., the 14 French opening games Rebel vs. Fritz which Howard mentioned
>seem to contain at least 10 doubles. Thence, their statistical relevance
>shrinks significantly -- namely to that of 4 other games without
>doubles!

If this is the case, then I would agree to your conclusion, Ernst. I
would also be inclined to assign a considerably larger statistical
uncertainty to the SSDF ELO result for Fritz-5. Well, time should show.

BTW, doesn't Rebel's book learning work okay ?

Regards, Uli

>
>=Ernst=



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