Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 12:13:42 06/11/02
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On June 11, 2002 at 08:27:01, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On June 11, 2002 at 07:37:52, Peter McKenzie wrote: > >>On June 11, 2002 at 06:30:43, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I left my computer on at G/10 and found out just now that Crafty was winning >>>22.5 to 13.5 Now after seeing this difference do you still think that I need >>>several hundred games to know which one is the best out of these two? >>> >>>Jorge >> >>Ask yourself this question: >> >>"If I ran this very same match 100 times, but with Crafty 18.15 vs Crafty 18.15, >>then how many times would I see this score (22.5 - 13.5)?" >> >>What answer do you come up with? > >You can run any program against itself 30 times or 1000 times and the difference >would never be more than 30%. It doesn't matter how many times you let a match >run up to, if the difference is over a margin of 30%, then you should stop it. So your answer is it would happen 0 times out of 100 ? > >Jorge > >Jorge.
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