Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 11:55:23 04/15/04
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On April 15, 2004 at 14:51:26, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On April 14, 2004 at 04:48:50, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>You may be interested in checking out my M.Sc. Thesis, "Tuning Evaluation >>Functions by Maximizing Concordance". An unofficial version of it is now >>available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~dave. >> >>The purpose of the work is to provide a metric by which one can assess whether a >>change to their heuristic evaluation function has been beneficial or not. It >>includes and expands upon work reported at ACG-10 in Graz. >> >>Feel free to post comments / questions / criticisms also! If there's something >>I can quickly address (e.g. typos) I can perhaps correct it before I hand it in. >> >>If you have or know someone who has back issues of Computer-Schach und Spiele, >>could you please check if I have the proper references for the Nunn tests (see >>Nunn 1998 and Nunn 2000 in the reference section). Earlier Fred Friedel put me >>into contact with Dieter Steinwender, but I haven't heard from him in a week or >>so now, and I want to be 100% sure I have it right. >> >>Also, readers who know Dutch are welcome to verify that I've done the proper >>thing with Martin van der Meulen. >> >>Dave > >As I understand, your paper goes like this (omitting background, proofs, >implementation details, results, little things like that :) > >1. Get 650,000 positions from Chess Informant with GM evals (e.g. +-, =, etc). > >2. Divide positions into sets of +-, +=, =, etc. > >3. Tune eval such that all the positions in the set '+-' evaluate higher than >the positions in the set '+=' which all evaluate higher than positions in the >set '=' (etc) using gradient search. > >Close? > >anthony Its actually a pretty interesting paper, because it gets around the problem of getting a numerical evaluation out of GM. Criticism: In Acrobat, your pages are offset. They look like: PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP anthony
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