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Subject: Re: Engine testing: Who do you play?

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 10:20:58 08/29/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 12:11:28, Uri Blass 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
>
>Unfortunately I do not know which engines to choose.
>
>I guess that I can choose Ufim for 5 and Gothmog for 4 but I do not know which
>engines to choose for 1,2,3 and I am not expert to define styles of engines.
>
>Uri

You can set Pepito's style in it's config.dat to "solid", "normal", or
"agressive".  If you suspect a Pepito clone you can try the misspelling
"aggressive" which it will also accept.

Dan H.



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