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Subject: Re: Petir 1.7 vs Ufim 501 ended 11 to 9

Author: Norm Pollock

Date: 06:08:19 10/13/04

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On October 12, 2004 at 16:29:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 12, 2004 at 14:50:51, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Petir 1.7 was using the WizardLight8 Opening book :-)
>>
>>Rank	Engine	Score	         Uf      Pe		         S-B
>>1	Petir 1.7	11.0/20	 · ·· ·· 00011=01=1011=01110=	 99.00
>>2	Ufim501 	9.0/20	 11100=10=0100=10001=·· ·· ·	 99.00
>>
>>
>>20 games played / Tournament finished
>>Tournament start: 2004.10.10, 20:52:20
>>Latest update: 2004.10.12, 18:41:28
>>Site/ Country: S0025128408, United States
>>Level: Blitz 15/1
>>Hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1202 MHz
>>Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 Build 2195
>>PGN-File: C:\Program Files\Arena\Arena.pgn
>>Table created with: Arena 1.092
>
>If you were to add 10 more games so that your tournaments had 30 games each, the
>statistical significance goes up quite a bit.
>
>30 is a sort of magic number when it comes to statistical measurements.

I remember the "magic number" as 32. It sort of allows the use of a normal
distribution to approximate a binomial distribution. Something like that.



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