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Subject: Re: Forget about all Computer-Computer matches

Author: odell hall

Date: 15:30:09 09/26/99

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On September 26, 1999 at 17:33:36, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On September 26, 1999 at 17:23:40, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>What does this teach us ?
>
>what does this teach YOU.
>
>
>>1.) Forget about any serious testing (hello SSDF ! ;-) ) if you don't play at
>>least 200 matches between every engine. If not you just get garbage results.
>
>nonsense.
>i don't need 200 games.
>2 or 4 or even less (depending on the programs)
>are enough to say how strong something is.
>very exactly.
>
>
>>2.) We should never _ever_ say that anyone cheats if results differ that much on
>>one computer! Even if that person does use some unwise formulations.
>
>:-)))
>
>statistic is no excuse. if you watch the games itself, you can see
>which program is stronger and will win in the end, in 200 or in 4 games.
>you can see this from the games.
>believe me.
>anybody can do this. i can teach anybody to see it.
>its easy. just a question of beeing used to it.
>
>if you drink each day different sorts of milk you can in 3 years
>be an expert. and recognize which milk comes from where or is better
>without drinking 200 ltrs. milk. one glass is enough.
>
>
>My opinion.
>

I agree but I would say more like 20 games to tell which is stronger.
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Tec--



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