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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 13, 2008 07:17 AM UTC:
This discussion is pointless. In dealing with a stochastic quantity, if
your statistics are no good, your observations are no good, and any
conclusions based on them utterly meaningless. Nothing of what you say
here has any reality value, it is just your own fantasies. First you
should have results, then it becomes possible to talk about what they
mean. You have no result. Get statistically meaningful testresults. If
your method can't produce them, or you don't feel it important enough to
make your method produce them, don't bother us with your cr*p instead.

Two sets of piece values as different as day and knight, and the only
thing you can come up with is that their comparison is 'inconclusive'.
Are you sure that you could conclusively rule out that a Queen is worth 7,
or a Rook 8, by your method of 'playtesting'? Talk about pathetic: even
the two games you played are the same. Oh man, does your test setup s*ck!
If you cannot even decide simple issues like this, what makes you think
you have anything meaningful to say about piece values at all?

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