Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 10:03:11 03/19/98
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On March 15, 1998 at 22:50:22, Mark Young wrote: >The Match will end when one program wins 10 games draws not counting. >If the score is 9-9 the match will end as draw. I think that the number of games played will be too low to have a scientific result. I have started a match between the Fritz4.01 and Fritz 5 engines, same opening books , PP 180 MHz , 32 MB of hash tables for each program, "blitz" 1 hour. After 40 games, there score was 20 - 20. But after 94 games Fritz 4.01: 42,5 Fritz 5: 51,5 (20 - 29 - 43 draws). Conclusion: when the ratings of the programs are close, you have to play many many games before you can say that one is SLIGTHLY better that the other. As I think that ALL programs ahead in the Sweedish Rating List are close, THOUSANDS of games are necessary and any conclusion based on 1 game (I have read some of them here...), 11 games or even 100 games is RIDICULOUS. Sylvain Renard
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