Author: Peter Berger
Date: 09:05:30 09/10/04
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On September 10, 2004 at 09:49:41, martin fierz wrote: >On September 10, 2004 at 09:37:18, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >[snip] > >>I'm not the only one who post matches in progress....... > >just one more thing: you are conducting ONE experiment: how does the opening >book influence the match result of jonny-movei. you have posted about a zillion >(ok, i'm exaggerating, i know) intermediate results, with cross-references all >around. it is very hard to follow such a flood of posts. >here's a constructive suggestion: wait until you have all matches finished and >then publish the results: > >jonny - movei: > >book A: 16-4 >book B: 11-9 >book C: 5-15 > >that is about all information that is needed. one click, a 10-line-post, and >that's it, people interested in this experiment will be grateful that they don't >have to look up all the information in 10 different posts. > >i'm not saying that your experiment is useless in itself. the influence of >opening books is an interesting question. but if you play too little games (and >it doesn't matter whether that is 10 or 20...) it's just tossing coins... > >cheers > martin I don't think this is true. It looks like a pretty safe conclusion with your above results, all else being equal, that book A is superior to book C. I know others have done programs to simulate these kind of questions in Monte Carlo experiments, it would be interesting to know the level of certainty - I don't think that more games are needed at all, given the above results. Peter
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