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Subject: Re: mclane's summer-tournament: round 6 update

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 00:25:59 09/07/98

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On September 06, 1998 at 14:07:42, Thorsten Czub wrote:
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>SELF test ?!
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>I don't think SELF test (x vs. x+1) makes much sense. Sorry.

Thorsten,

Although you might never have thought it, I mostly agree with your disdain
of self-play. It seems to be a necessary evil like test suites (just to be
sure you did not break the new version) but it does not tell you very much
about the real improvement in playing strength -- especially not if the
changes of the new version are mostly added or tuned evaluation features.
In case of pure search enhancements (e.g. new extension or pruning methods),
however, self-play is quite reasonable and expressive.

=Ernst=



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