Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 13:30:38 03/13/02
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On March 12, 2002 at 14:26:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 12, 2002 at 14:17:18, William H Rogers wrote: > >>You can do what I do and that is to find another program that is 100 to 200 >>points stronger than yours is. Then play a bunch of games, recording every move. >>Make changes to your eval then play a bunch more to see if there is any change. >>I found that some changes in evals do not effect both colors the same. Sometimes >>you will find that a certain change will make black play stronger and then >>others will favor white. It depends upon ...... >>Hell, I don't really know. >>Bill > >Thanks for the suggestion. I remember Don Daily writing once >that he tested his program by letting it play matches from fixed >starting positions, and then comparing the moves played before and >after the eval change until a different move is played. If the new >move is better, the eval change is good. > >It's a workable system, but it still requires human judgement. > >I'd ideally want something that can be more or less automated. > >Playing testmatches doesn't cut it; too much variance in the results >to test small changes and too slow too. >I have a testing system for search changes that is more or less >automated, fairly accurate and reasonably fast. Constructing >something similar for eval changes would be great, but I don't >know it it's even possible. > >-- >GCP Some settings are easely to with draw only by looking at the lines it shows when the program starts showing thinking lines only a very drunk player can think of. or with other words lines which totaly don't make any sence. Regards Marc
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