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Subject: Re: CM6555?

Author: Dan Kiski

Date: 07:25:44 12/16/98

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On December 16, 1998 at 09:42:33, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 16, 1998 at 09:11:49, Dan Kiski wrote:
>
>
>>I hate to say it but a test of 20 or so games at one set time control don't
>>prove anything regardless of games with other programs.
>
>Are you talking about my idea of testing CM against the other top programs?

No, I was refering to cm6555 v cm cummings.
>
>I know that 20 games don't say much, they almost say nothing. If you want to
>have nearly what you call PROOF then you need to have at least 500 games EACH
>MATCH.
>
>What my intention is to get a more certain impression of CM's strength. CM6k
>won't be tested by SSDF and has no autoplayer so it is a farce to play manually
>even 100 games. That justifies, at least for me, this small tournament with
>reduced time controls which indeed is bigger than some other Xmas tourneys or
>so.
>And when we see after the 240 games that CM6k/CM6555 wins every match with 13-7
>*I* would go so far and say that CM6k/CM6555 IS STRONGER than the rest. You
>don't need to but I will/would.



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