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Subject: 10,000 games to see improvement??

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 10:33:59 01/20/03

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On January 19, 2003 at 14:29:16, Christophe Theron wrote:

>I'm sorry, but if it is already difficult to establish which is the best program
>overall, it is even more difficult to establish which one gains more from faster
>hardware. It's simple math.
>
>So don't even think to be able to assert something like that before reaching the
>10000 games mark. Please.
>
>    Christophe


In this point I totally disagree. If it is necessary to play 10,000 games to see
ELO + 20 then the improvement for all users is 0 because noone will play 10,000
valuable games.

Can you tell us how it is possible to see other program's improvement clearly
(!) with much less than 10,000 games? Or would you say this recognized clear
improvement is just halluzination?




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