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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