Author: blass uri
Date: 05:57:01 05/25/99
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On May 25, 1999 at 08:16:13, Harald Faber wrote: >On May 25, 1999 at 08:00:44, blass uri wrote: > >>>>The evaluation function should be changed and my Junior5.4 has a different >>>>evaluation function. >>> >>>Do you believe that changing and not adding would make an improvement? >> >>I am sure about it. >>The evaluation of Junior is based on some numbers in the program and changing >>these numbers can improve Junior. > >It simply reminds me on tuning Chessmaster... The evaluation function of chessmaster is not public and you cannot tune most of the numbers in the evaluation function. You can tune only small number of parameters. > >>>>Junior clears the hash tables after every move so it cannot learn from previous >>>>search and it is not because of the fact that it is a fast searcher. >>> >>>Whoops. Any reason for that? >> >>I do not know. >>Amir Ban said in the past that it is not important and cannot help much but I >>think that he was wrong. >>I told him ideas to carry information from search to the next search and I think >>that it can help significantly in tactical positions. > >That is my opinion too. > >>>Fast searching=little knowledge >> >>1)I think that a little knowledge that is correct is better than a lot of >>knowledge that is not correct. > >I don't expect ANY of the current programs containing incorrect knowledge. You do not expect it but I am sure that most of the programs contains incorrect knowledge because the programmers do not know what is the correct numbers and it is not an easy task to find them. > >>2) I am not sure if fast searching =little knowledge >>It can be also some tricks to do the same things faster. > >Sure. Think of the (alleged?) 40% speed gain Fritz4->Fritz5. >But I am sure that a program doing 20-30knps has MUCH more knowledge inside than >a program at 200knps. I am not sure about it. Uri
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