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Subject: Re: Vas, ST is not so bad! (Wait !!!!!!)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:25:11 12/24/05

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On December 24, 2005 at 12:55:56, Gabor Szots wrote:

>On December 24, 2005 at 11:28:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 24, 2005 at 11:07:38, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On December 24, 2005 at 10:00:44, Nolan Denson wrote:
>>>
>>>>While playing on playchess, I get my best results when playing with slightly
>>>>Tactical. At one point it played about 43 games in a row with no loses.  The
>>>>rating of the other accounts were from 2400-2900.  My rating got as high as 2860
>>>>using slightly tactical.  I am using a 3.73 EE processor.
>>>
>>>In my personal tests, ST had the clearly worst results compared to the other
>>>settings.
>>>
>>>                                        Albert
>>
>>Note that it is logical to expect ST not to be the worst because if ST is worse
>>than SP then I expect also VT to be worse than ST.
>>
>>It is the same as changing the value of the queen.
>>
>>If you have 4 possible values 9.5 9.7 9.9 10.1 then it is not logical that 9.9
>>is worse both relative to 9.7 and relative to 10.1
>>
>>If the 9.9 is worse than 9.7 then it means that the value of queen is smaller
>>than 9.9 and in this case 9.9 is certainly worse than 10.1
>>
>>Uri
>>Uri
>
>I don't understand this argument. A lot of functions have local minimums or
>maximums.
>
>Gábor

Yes but local minimum unlike local maximum is not logical when trying to
optimize a parameter for playing strength.

Uri



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