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Subject: Re: Testing Rybka 1.01 Beta 11 at 40/20+40/20+10min finish.

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 08:58:57 01/22/06

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On January 22, 2006 at 10:17:29, James T. Walker wrote:

Probably you are right, Jim. Despite my 'personal bias' my biggest surprise was
this 9-1 score for Rybka, anyway. ;-)

Normally I apply the method you mentioned... but this time I felt free to made
this decision, because I was testing a Beta version.

Now I am testing again Rybka 1.01 Beta 11 against Hiarcs 10, Shredder 9 and
Fritz 9.

Thanks for your comment, Jim. Regards,

Tom.



>This looks like a clear case of personal Bias to me. :-)  You didn't like the
>result with Fritz so you did a repeat?  You liked the other results so it was ok
>to let it stand.  To avoid biasing your results maybe you should pick an exact
>number of games to play vs each and stick to it.  The final overall result is
>what counts.  In short matches anything can happen.  I've seen Rybka get beat by
>Fritz 8 +8 -0 =2 for 9-1 score.  But after 100 games Rybka won 67% of the games.
>Regards,
>Jim



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