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Subject: Re: SSDF rating list in 2004 on 3600 Mhz PC's

Author: martin fierz

Date: 13:25:01 03/30/02

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On March 29, 2002 at 07:47:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 29, 2002 at 07:42:37, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>It's also dedicated to those who still believe that there is no performance
>>increase/decrease when playing on different time controls. (Hi Christophe!)
>
>Hmm, that would be me too :)
>
>>4) You are invited to shoot the above into pieces.
>
>My main argument against it would be that the SSDF ratings have
>(approx) 30 elo error margins to either side. If you compare the
>ratings of two engines, you have to cope with this twice. The
>speedup ELO numbers are on the order of 50-130 ELO.

statistics, GCP! adding two random errors does not give twice the error, but (if
they are equal), sqrt(2)*single error.

aloha
  martin

>Basically, I think this means that using those numbers to predict
>future performance will have an error margin so big, that the list
>is meaningless.
>
>--
>GCP



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