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Subject: Re: Crafty WAC Results

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:14:11 09/13/01

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On September 13, 2001 at 13:29:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>The approach used in Beowulf is to calculate average time to solution and other
>statistical data of that nature.  That way, if you can reduce solution time, you
>can still glean data even from the easiest possible data set.

Yes, but in large part you are dealing with solution times that are measured in
fractions of a second.

It might be valid to look at this kind of thing.  If you run these for one
second each, perhaps you get some information about how your tree works near the
tips.

This isn't the kind of suite you'd use to see how you'd behave at tournament
time controls.

And you can't use it to evaluate changes to SMP search, since that gets much
more efficient if you leave it running for a while.

If you are talking about letting solved positions run for a while, in order to
get information from that, these aren't the positions I'd choose, since I'd
rather optimize time taken to find the tactical move, or time taken to get to a
deep depth in a positional case.  After the game is over, it doesn't matter how
deep you get.

bruce



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