Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:13:11 10/16/03
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On October 16, 2003 at 14:10:48, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Testing a newer version a program against a previous is useless. Remember when >we tested Fritz7 versus Fritz8 it gave us the false impression that Fritz 8 was >NOT better, but when it was tested by the SSDF against other programs the >difference was noticeable. I once played 8 different copies of the SAME program against each other and they had pretty different scores. Obviously the same program is not weaker than itself. Maybe most of the tournaments results we see are worthless, since they do not approach statistical reliability.
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