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Subject: Re: Little Goliath Gold - reliable results?

Author: CLiebert

Date: 02:22:49 06/09/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 11:54:13, James Robertson wrote:

>On June 08, 1999 at 07:32:30, CLiebert wrote:
>
>Unfortunately, as I found out the hard way testing my program, 10, 20, even 30
>games is NOT enough to get a result with any kind of confidence.... :( I was
>horrified to find that greater than 300 is needed for a reliable result....
>
>James
>
On principle your are right. To my experience after 100 games
against 4 or 5 opponents your have first nice trend. Not more.
200 games would be much better and everthing over 300
seems to be more stabil and reliable, I agree.
But in our case the results against crafty 16.6 are always poor
- the horror-opponent of lgg :-)) - so I was astonished about the first
games. For now: it still looks good, lgg beta just beats Nimzo with
the same result (and loses against Hiarcs4). Testings are going on...

Another remark: the rating depends very much from the choice of opponents
you take for a certain engine. It gets much better if you choose weaker
onces. May be the problem with the ratings-results of cm6000 in sweden?!

Christian



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