Author: Mark Young
Date: 12:18:59 03/19/98
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On March 19, 1998 at 13:03:11, Sylvain Renard wrote:
>
>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
When you play a match you are not trying to get a rating as you are only
playing one player. what you are trying to do is see if one program is
stronger then the other. The chances are in the match I am playing the
the stronger computer will win. With only counting wins it lessens the
chance that the weaker player will win. That all a match is designed to
do. Not to calculate a rating.
Mark Young.
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