Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Rebel XP Machëide x2cou_51 and 56 strike back... games versus Fritz7

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 17:10:20 09/12/02

Go up one level in this thread


On September 12, 2002 at 19:29:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>I think that there is misunderstanding here
>
>Martin only means that you cannot make conclusion which programs is better and
>he does not mean to say that you cannot learn from the games.

That is the point.

>
>I do not think that martin disagree that even few moves give information that
>can be productive for getting better version.
>
>You can have a guess that you believe in based on 10 games but when the
>difference in strength is smaller than 100 elo the guess may be often wrong.
>
>The guess is still productive and it is clearly better than a random change
>that you can be almost sure that it is not better than the default version.

I could not agree more with you, Uri. This is all correct.
Let me add one further point. It is very irritating if someone
is insulting people for their questions. Not just questions but
questioning based on scientific methods. It goes way out of
control if people are insulted for giving us their educated
comments.

Rolf Tueschen


>
>Uri





This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.