Author: Johanes Suhardjo
Date: 11:31:36 03/13/00
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On March 06, 2000 at 11:46:38, Jay Scott wrote: >But even if you corrected that, there's still the problem that the >suite won't be matched to each different program's style of play. In a real >game a program can try to reach positions that it knows how to play well, >but in a suite it has to take what comes. If a program plays to its own >strengths it may play better than its test results say, and if it doesn't >then it may play worse. > >To get a relevant test suite, test each program on positions that occur >in its own games. This is easily done by having it play games. :-) Very well put! Johanes Suhardjo (johanes@nd.edu) -- Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
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