Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 14:34:17 03/28/02
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On March 28, 2002 at 16:35:09, Uri Blass wrote: >I understand that it is not truth but you do not need to run >1000 games in order to check if the computer is 3-10% slower >that is translated to a loss of 3-10 points. > >If you do a change in the evaluation function then you may need >1000 games in order to know if the program is better or worse but >if you do a change that only change the speed of the program and not the >evaluation or the search rules then >the best way to test is not to play games. > >You can simply give the program to solve a test suite >in order to check if it needs more or less time to do it. You do not need to play 1000 games to see that your computer is slower. You do need (approximately) such a great amount of games to positively know the difference in speed generates an elo difference of 3-10 points. -- GCP
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