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Subject: Re: Different Hydra personalities against Rybka

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 03:08:49 12/13/05

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On December 13, 2005 at 06:01:45, Chrilly Donninger wrote:

>>
>>
>>Hi Chrilly,
>>
>>I find that hard to believe. One setting scores 40% against Rybka and another
>>75-80% but at the same time the latter scores less against Shredder? You did not
>>wrote by how much the more selective search scores better against Shredder but
>>nevertheless in my tests I never experienced something like that.
>>
>>I often experience the same like Vas, that a tuning shows significant
>>improvement in selfplay but no significance against a broad range of opponents.
>>But I never observed that something which helped in selfplay hurts against other
>>engines. It may be without effect against others but not worse.
>>
>>So far I was never able to tune Fruit against a specific opponent which resulted
>>in a signficant difference not to say in doubling the score (40% to 80%). So
>>either I simply lack the understanding how to do this or you played not enough
>>games to get a statistical significant result and observed just noise. Given the
>>little time between your first post about Rybka and this one I give both
>>possibilities the same probability. ;-)
>>
>>regards
>>
>>Joachim
>>
>One explanation could be: As a tester you can only change some settings. But I
>changed the search on the software-side almost completly. It was additionally
>tuned against Shredder to play very aggressive. This worked quite good and gave
>>80% against Shredder. The standard-version is - on a single - 70-75%.
>Against Rybka this over-aggressive style did not work properly. But the
>standard-version which is more tuned had no problems with Rybka.
>
>Chrilly


Does the standard version of Hydra use any foward purning other than Null move?

Ryan



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