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Subject: Re: Fritz8 update

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 13:23:55 05/06/03

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On May 06, 2003 at 13:44:35, Mike Hood wrote:

>On May 05, 2003 at 19:24:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On May 05, 2003 at 19:02:21, Brian Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>I would not even worry about geting an update of a version that is weaker than
>>>>the original that came with your Fritz 8 CD.
>>>>
>>>>Jorge
>>>
>>>That is not true, or at best is an exaggeration on one specific example.  First,
>>>get the update, most if it are GUI bug fixes.  If you want, keep backups of the
>>>different versions of the engines.  I haven't seen much of a difference between
>>>the playing strength.
>>>
>>>Brian
>>
>>For each their own, you can test each version 100 games or more if you wish
>>against Shredder 7 or 7.04, Deep Fritz7 and let me know what you can find. I
>>don't have to walk 100 miles to calculate how long it will take me to get to a
>>place located exactly 100 miles away, all that I need it to calculate my
>>walking's speed and the rest is simple. If you take a small sample statisticaly
>>you can make a good judgement without having to test the mass population.
>
>Not a very good example. For instance, I want to find out how long it'll take me
>to walk 100 miles after I've walked 10 miles in 2 hours. So it'll take me 20
>hours? Wrong! After 12 hours at the most I'll get tired and go to sleep, so the
>real answer is closer to 30 hours. I know I'm being whimsical, but the fact of
>the matter is that after playing 10 games the result could be overly optimistic

Here are more matches: http://www.beepworld.de/members39/utzinger/matches.htm


>or overly pessimistic. The only way to find out how an engine will fare after
>100 games is to play 100 games.



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