Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:12:07 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 05:46:03, stuart taylor wrote: >On October 10, 2002 at 02:56:58, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>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 > >Thanks for your answer. So you say that numerous games is only necesary with >Comp-comp games. But not when there is at least one human. I do not believe in it I remember that sofia polgar won a tournament in Rome with 8.5/9 with performace of more than 2800 when she had not even rating of 2400. She won 2 unrated players and 7 players with average fide rating of more than 2500. This was her best result and later tournaments showed that this tournament was only an accident How do you explain it? I guess that it was a statistical error. Uri
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