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Subject: Re: LONG POST -- need expert opinions

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 12:43:25 01/06/00

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On January 06, 2000 at 14:25:10, Dann Corbit wrote:

>The data can be retrieved in a side-by-side format from:
>ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/both.epd
>
>This is a comparison of data produced by PC's at very long time controls with
>data produced by a supercomputer.
>
>This is a very significant and important step for C.A.P. (and I think it will
>also be for chess theory).

I'm a bit unclear on this...What exactly did you mean by "see how well it meshes
with theory"?  Do you mean chess theory or statistical theory?  And what is the
current theory?
One thing that makes it difficult to compare the two sets is that the formatting
of the output is so different.  I can hardly read the second result of each
pair, because of the weird move formatting.  Also, it has no given search depth
and is missing any other indicator of how deeply it was searched.
One other question I have is what program(s) the new data came from?

It appears that the supercomputer data gives a higher score for almost every
position, which is strange.  Is this just some subset of the total positions
where this occurs, or is this indicative of the entire set?

Sorry for all the questions. :)  Hopefully you can provide me with some
enlightenment. :)



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