Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 13:29:53 06/11/01
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On June 11, 2001 at 16:08:19, David Rasmussen wrote: >If you simply want to know who performed best of two engines, then you are >right. But you can conclude anything from that. Oh yes. My conclusion is that when I match the two programs again I know with 95% certainty which one is going to lose in the long run, if either. >Certainly not that one is a better chess player than the other. Well, among those 2 engines the winner is the better chess player. Unless you define 'better chess' player as something else than that which will win the most games. It doesn't say a thing about performance vs something else, but I find it interesting to compare different versions of the same engine. If I fiddle and it suddenly plays significantly better than the old version, that is a good indication that that setting is better even vs other programs/humans. -- GCP
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