Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 12:34:38 07/30/02
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Daniel, >>What sort of comments? About statistical significance? > >Yup :) It's good that people here are aware that a few games are not *usually* enough to establish the best program. However I fear that there is a danger of computer chess nihilism where any series of games are poo-pood as statistically insignificant. Note that if the score had been 37 v 23 one could say with 95% accuracy that one program was better than another (no doubt 95% is not good enough for some people!). Also note that a score of say 35 v 25 shows that one program is *probably* better than the other. The point of the series of games was to quickly establish if Tao or Pepito had improved significantly - the conclusion being that they were still *about* the same strength. Regards, Steve Maughan
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