Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:59:00 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 22:06:44, Graham Banks wrote: >On February 24, 2006 at 21:56:43, emerson tan wrote: > >>On February 24, 2006 at 15:07:22, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Obviously more games are needed! :-) >> >> >>More games should be play when there's a big agap in elo so that when the strong >>engine loses, it has many games to recover also > > >In a knockout tournament that I ran with 32 engines playing 30 game knockout >matches against each other, in ALL 31 matches, the engine that was winning after >20 games was the eventual winner. > >I think that the 40 game matches that SSDF play are more than sufficient, >especially when you consider the time taken to run the matches at 40 moves in 2 >hours repeating. > >I mean, in PRACTICAL terms, where does one draw the line? > >Regards, Graham. I think 40 games tell us what we want to know: A >> B (where >> is 'Much greater than' rather than shift operator)
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