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Subject: Re: Book/No-book more data from a longer run

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:58:15 02/21/05

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On February 21, 2005 at 13:40:37, Dann Corbit wrote:

>This is on the 2.2 GHz 64 bit computer (which had fewer problems than the slower
>machine).  The first set is the raw data, and the second set has had all
>duplicate games removed.
>
>  Program                    Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>1 Polyglot fruit-book      : 2553   31  35   372    59.9 %   2483   18.3 %
>2 Polyglot glaurung-book   : 2540   32  35   372    57.5 %   2487   16.7 %
>3 Polyglot glaurung-no-book: 2481   32  34   372    46.2 %   2507   16.7 %
>4 Polyglot fruit-no-book   : 2427   40  29   372    36.3 %   2525   14.0 %
>
>  Program                    Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>1 Polyglot fruit-book      : 2550   32  37   348    59.3 %   2484   17.5 %
>2 Polyglot glaurung-book   : 2536   33  35   363    56.7 %   2489   16.5 %
>3 Polyglot glaurung-no-book: 2483   33  36   343    46.9 %   2505   16.9 %
>4 Polyglot fruit-no-book   : 2430   41  30   354    36.9 %   2524   12.7 %
>
>It seems that Fruit may benefit from a book slightly more than glaurung.  At
>least, in the case of fruit, there is now enough data to say for sure that a
>book does help.


I don't believe there was ever any question about whether a book helped or not.
But whether or not it helps by a 700+ rating point advantage is the question at
hand.  The answer is "no" IMHO.

:)



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