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Subject: Re: Dangers in CC - SSDF: Terminology, Statistics

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 14:59:24 02/21/03

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On February 21, 2003 at 17:12:06, Richard Pijl wrote:

>>Do you talk to me?
>
>Of course :-)
>
>>I have no problem with what you say. Perhaps others begin to
>>uderstand now. You could give SSDF interesting ideas for a better testing. - But
>>you avoided the question if Shredder is now the justified number one. What do
>>you think.
>
>Number one as in best program of the world? No. It could be, but I doubt whether
>you could _ever_ point to one program as the best or the strongest program. The
>differences in playing strength are just too small.
>One conclusion you could draw from the SSDF list is that is really is a strong
>program ... when playing against other programs :-)
>
>Nevertheless, I welcome the effort of the SSDF in playing all those matches
>between programs. Although you can not conclude which program is really the
>strongest from this list, it gives a good indication on what the stronger
>programs are. That in itself is very useful.
>
>Richard.


You like these 20 games matches in autoplayer mode? What is the sense of such
"matches"?

What do you think of the differentiation "best" and "number one in SSDF"?



Rolf Tueschen



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