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Subject: Re: It takes math to show truth, matter how strongly you feel about it.

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 13:40:31 01/28/00

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On January 28, 2000 at 15:26:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 28, 2000 at 15:20:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>[snip]
>>In my ChessMachine days I did this experiment too but then with real 40/2h
>>games between 2 identical engines. I can only confirm the results of your
>>statistic program.
>
>It's coincidence, then.
>
>The method does not work.

It's really simple. Play 100 blitz games with Winboard, the Rebel build-in
autoplayer or the one of Fritz between 2 equal engines.

Match-1 (100 games) 60-40
Match-2 (100 games) 40-60
Match-3 (100 games) 55-45

All very normal.

From my experience I say play at least 200. To be absolutely sure 300. This
is the main important valuable argument of the SSDF, the high number of games.

Ed

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