Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 08:09:16 08/28/04
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On August 28, 2004 at 10:52:08, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On August 28, 2004 at 04:31:06, Volker Böhm wrote: > >> >>I agree to the two earlier posts. Don´t test agains the older version of the >>same engine. Usually you do not get good results. >> >>Test against some other engines. I suggest you select: >> >>1. One Engine that plays a very safe style >>2. One Engine that plays a very positional style >>3. One "Average" Engine >>4. One Engine that outsearches you >>5. One Engine that you are outsearching but that is not (much) weaker than >>yourself >> >>Greetings Volker > >With this said, I would say that using previous versions to determine >only if a new feature is better or worse, but not by how much, makes >sense. > That's what I'm trying to do - determine (with some degree of confidence) if a change is an improvement or not. I don't really care how much and to determine this, I would think, would require a lot more testing. Dan H. >Choose which features to then test further in other ways. > >Stuart
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