Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 03:45:16 01/06/00
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On January 05, 2000 at 21:59:22, Tina Long wrote: >On January 05, 2000 at 13:39:25, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>Hi Tony! >> I wonder why this match is 42 games long instead of the usual 40. >>José. I had played 39 games before the last overnight session. In that session I got three games. There's no point in deleting two of them is there? >partial copy of November list Rebel-Tigger Results: >Hiar732 K6450 26-16 Fritz532 P200 30.5-13.5 See the above answer. >I wonder this too, playing odd numbers of games does to a very very minor extent >skew the results, ie if every (or say the top 20) program played every program >in the same number of games there would be one less bit of bias in the results. > >I used to use the SSDF tables to make "pretend" tournament tables of the >computers/programs I owned or was interested in, all play all 40 games, by >extrapolating ssdf results. There was always holes, or Genius 4 was leading >Genius 3 3-1 giving me a 30-10 result, or Genius 3 P90 loses to Genius 3 486/50 >9-11, always spoiling the logic of the tables. > >The major finding was that although a program may have been ranked 1 on SSDF, it >would often be 3rd or 4th when only it's games against top competition were >considerred. The extent to which a top program flogs a minor progam can effect >it's postion amongst the top few too much in my opinion. > >eg another partial copy of November list Rebel-Tigger Results: >MCPro 6.0 P90 17-3 Fritz 3.0 P90 25.5-2.5 Against weaker opponents we usually play 20 games matches. On the Fritz 3 result the tester might have been away during the weekend having a session going. Tony >Don't mind me, I'm just raving here.....
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