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Subject: Re: IPCCC: Christophe, this match statistically doesn' mean anything !

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 00:49:46 02/25/01

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>I guess Christophe didn't want to participate since this tourney doesn't mean
>anything statistically. I guess each program should play each other 200 times
>before the best program receive recognition.

Hi!

Winning World Championships and being the strongest are not necessarily the same
thing. Can't you really understand why programmers test a lot more than 10 times
the changes they have made? Do you understand why he (and I) complains about the
low number of games in many tests that are published here? If my engine would
have entered the IPCCC and won it, it still wouldn't be the strongest overall,
only in this match. It would get a title but it would not probably win the next
tournament. Why? Because I have tested it _a lot_ against other engines.

Severi



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