Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:14:49 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 11:02:43, eric guttenberg wrote:
>If my memory is correct, in the first 10 games H7.32 failed to win a single
>game and was behind 2.5-7.5; in the next 15 games Hiarcs has won 7 or 8 and
>has scored 10.5-4.5! Maybe Junior will go on a streak soon...or maybe not.
>
>I have never seen a clearer demonstration of the futility of basing an
>opinion of program playing strength on a handful of games.
That is another tremendous value of having tests of this nature. How often have
we seen a post like:
Title: "Program foobar stinks!"
Content: Program foobar lost miserably to program barfoo! What a waste of
magnetic domains on a plastic substrate! Look at the foolish move it made on
move #<val>! I wish I had never wasted the money on that heap of rubbish!!!"
{Game score goes here}
If the SSDF did not exist, we would have to invent them.
IMO-YMMV.
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