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Subject: Re: Old on new, New on slower

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 03:36:53 10/19/01

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On October 18, 2001 at 14:49:01, Christophe Theron wrote:

>The overall result of the match is 18-6, that is a 75% win for the newer
>software on inferior hardware.
>
>I look at my statistical tables and I see that this result is significant with
>90% confidence. The error margin for 24 games is under 15% with 90% confidence,
>and here we got a result of 25% above 50%.
>
>So I'm 90% sure that the new software on slower hardware is better than Fritz3
>on the faster hardware.
>
>I could even say that new software on slower hardware is *significantly* better
>than Fritz3 on faster hardware, not even talking about what would happen on
>equal hardware.

I agree with all of the above.  However, IIRC Fritz did not get really strong
before version 5.  Fritz 3, when released, was quite far behind Genius,
MChess, The King and Rebel.

I personally do believe that there has been considerable software improvements
in recent years, but I don't think matches against Fritz 3 is a good way to
prove it.

Tord



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