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Subject: Re: Yace 0.99.56 still the strongest amateur engine!? (Crafty 9.)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:47:24 09/05/02

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On September 05, 2002 at 08:26:56, pavel wrote:
>On September 05, 2002 at 07:35:12, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>I don't know how reliable this tournament is. Chezzz is consistently better on
>>ICC against a number of the opponents that are above it in this tournament.
>>
>>/David
>
>
>No offense to SSDF, but I consider this tournament to be more reliable than
>SSDF.
>If you look at the format of the tournament and the rules, and the way they are
>being played out.
>
>Only handicap is that, not alot of games are played by each programs in each
>division.
>But it's still better than differant programs playing "differant numbers of
>games" in a rating list.

I don't see a problem with that approach, as long as enough games are played.
When the number of games for some program is small, then the error bars will be
large.


>However, this is not a rating list, this is a tournament.
>
>cheers,
>pavs



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