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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:01:57 08/30/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 23:08:09, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On August 29, 2004 at 22:44:35, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>
>>Dan -- can you consider some kind of mathematical/engineering/biological
>>approach to balance all your terms?
>>
>>Have you done any auto-tuning?
>>
>>I had to write this entire 4 month 4000 line chess program just to get
>>something going with auto-tuning and got kind of bogged-down in the
>>implementation but it is all pretty much together for the next step.
>>
>>I want to auto-tune because a) I am a weak player and can't possibly
>>balance the terms myself b) I don't have the time to balance/test/rebalance
>>and retest for decades and c) it is more fun to watch the work being done
>>than to do it myself.
>>
>>Stuart
>
>Auto-tuning would be great.  My problem is I don't know how to do it.  If you
>have a method I'd love to hear more.
>
>Dan H.


It is also a _very_ hard problem.

_very_ hard...




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