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H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 23, 2008 09:36 AM UTC:

Derek Nalls:
| This might require very deep runs of moves with a completion time 
| of a few weeks to a few months per pair of games to achieve 
| conclusive results.

It still escapes me what you hope to prove by playing at such an
excessively long Time Control. If the result would be different from
playing at a a more 'normal' TC,  like one or two hours per game, (which
IMO will not be the case), it would only mean that any conclusions you draw
on them would be irrelevant for playing Chess at normal TC.

Furthermore, playing 2 games will be like flipping a coin. The result,
whatever it is, will not prove anything, as it would be different if you
would repeat the test. Experiments that do not give a fixed outcome will
tell you nothing, unless you conduct enough of them to get a good
impression on the probability for each outcome to occur.