Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 23:56:58 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 21:17:45, stuart taylor wrote: [snip] >And you anyway need about 500 games to come to a sensible estimation. There are several ways to to find out whether X is better than Y. One of them is to play countless games and simply see who gets more points. This is typically done in all the engine-engine matches and/or what the SSDF does. Another way is to play a few games but _objectively_ analyze the games afterwards. This way doesn't work very well when comparing 2 engines, because they style of play is similar, in a bigger sense. It works quite good in the Kramnik-DF match though, in my opinion. While it's very well possible, that the match turns in the next games, I have no doubt, that Kramnik indeed is stronger than DF, because I think the way he won his games so far are so convincing. (it's not that DF had bad luck or something, it simply lost chanceless - in my opinion) I wish people wouldn't be so focused on the match score of a match with only 8 games. It really doesn't say a whole lot, whether it's 4.5 - 3.5 or 4-4 at the end. But people are so focused on these numbers. I suggest that we enjoy the games rather than counting beans. :) Sargon
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