Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 12:33:01 09/07/03
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If your program doesn't beat TSCP I don't think it's because you lack tuning of your evaluation. I remember when Sharper couldn't beat TSCP, then after improving search adding hash-tables etc it started to beat TSCP more often. On a very basic level I think it is important to get rid of bugs, if you add lots of evaluation it's possible that you've added bugs in the evaluation. Try betting good results with little evaluation first to see if the tactics are correct. The downside of having little eval is that many engines will beat the crap out of your engine (I've seen it happen to Sharper alot) but if you have few buggs you can always add evaluation later and see improvement. I think many engines have buggs so keep testing against TSCP if you beat it with little evaluation your engine probably has few buggs. Also run testsuites like WAC to find buggs. If you really want to focus on evaluation lock for the testsuites called quiet, the test evaluation and run fast too! /Regards Albert
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