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Subject: Re: Yup more games should be played when there's a big gap in elo

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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