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Subject: Re: Proving something is better

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 01:10:35 12/20/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 19:28:01, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>I did, some 15-20 years ago, in the Swedish "PLY" a couple of articles that
>later became the basics for the SSDF testing.
>A year or so ago you posted a question about how to interpret results with very
>few games. In a another thread I posted a new theory for this as an answer
>"Match results - a complete(!) theory (long)".
>I also made a program to use for this that can be found at Dann's ftp site.
>/Peter

Hi Peter,

If you had not noticed it, you can take a look at a similar program I have
implemented:
http://remi.coulom.free.fr/WhoIsBest.zip
Basically, I started with the same theory as you did, but I went a bit farther
in the calculations. In particular, I proved that the result does not depend on
the number of draws, which is intuitively obvious once you really think about
it. I also found a more efficient way to estimate the result. I checked the
results of my program against yours and found that they agree.

Rémi



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