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Subject: Re: a little statistics - sometimes I can't resist :-)

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:36:04 10/22/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 10:15:32, Uri Blass wrote:

[snip]

>The 8 games with big hash for Fritz7 only gives an impression.
>Instead of playing hundreds of games to check if the impression is correct it is
>faster to get into conclusion by finding if Fritz7 search less nodes with higher
>hash tables.

I agree. But in this case the NPS (or depth reached, and similar) should be
posted/considered, not the game result. It's very well possible that the NPS was
only 50% (because a potential clearing of the HT would take more relativ time
time with short timecontrols, as you mention) but the game result wouldn't
reflect it, because it is only 8 games.

Or in other words: To conclude from a 5-3 result, that the NPS didn't change
significantly is simply useless. (although you're probably right in about 50% of
all cases :)

Sargon



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