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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