Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:57:53 01/26/04
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On January 26, 2004 at 13:08:01, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 26, 2004 at 12:16:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>HIARCS was not tuned for playing FRC, neither Fritz, nor Shredder and they are >>all handling these ugly 15 positions. > >That was not quite what I meant to say. Even if none of the programs are tuned >for playing FRC, it is perfectly possible that one of the programs has an >evaluation function which accidentally works better for FRC, and this could be >totally unrelated to the relative positional capabilities of the engines. > >>I'm not concluding that HIARCS has a bad >>opening book simply because it plays good with these 15 positions, but because I >>have seen in several of my matches and other people who post games of HIARCS >>that HIARCS Openings was NOT tuned for HIARCS. And strongly believe that HIARCS >>could gain another 15 or 20 points if it had a better opening book. > >You could be right, but I haven't seen enough data to make such conclusions yet. > >This is beside the point, but I have always wondered why anyone would >care about a 15 or 20 point improvement ... > >Tord You could be right 15 or 20 rating points doesn't mean much, but the opening book could cause 4 or 5 games out of 40 games, every times it get matched against Shredder8, Fritz 8 or even Junior 8 in the SSDF. Jorge
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