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Subject: Re: is shr.paderborn an improvement on s6?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:09:55 04/01/02

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On April 01, 2002 at 09:04:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 01, 2002 at 08:52:31, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On April 01, 2002 at 02:39:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On April 01, 2002 at 02:03:15, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 01, 2002 at 01:55:29, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 31, 2002 at 16:46:42, liam hearns wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>>I did not have time enough to test it very much
>>>>
>>>>>, but I got the impression it is about 15 to 20 points stronger than 6.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>April fool ?.
>>>>
>>>>Sarah.
>>>
>>>I know that the date is 1.4 but I see no reason to suspect this post.
>>>
>>>I can suspect if I read that the new version is 100 elo better but
>>>a claim about 15-20 elo improvement that is only an impression is
>>>not something that seems to be related with 1.4.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Tell me Uri, what's it take to be left with an impression of a 15-20 point
>>improvement?.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>Suppose that I correct a bug in my program.
>
>suppose that I see in tests that the new version
>gets a score of 11.5-10.5 against the old version.
>
>I can say in this case that my impression is that
>the new version is 15-20 elo better than the old version but
>I do not have enough games to be sure.
>
>Uri

Note that the number of games that I need to be sure about
15-20 elo improvement is more than 10000.

I may be sure about improvement even with less games but in that case
I can be sure only that it is 5-30 elo and not 15-20 elo.

Uri



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