Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 23:56:56 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 19:54:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 15, 1999 at 18:14:27, Michael Cummings wrote: > >>On December 15, 1999 at 13:43:19, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On December 15, 1999 at 08:45:39, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>> >>>>> ... >>>>>That is what I include in tuning an engine. Plus when more games are played >>>>>against tiger programmers can tune their engines not just towards tiger but a >>>>>bit towards all programs, an engine upgrade. >>>> >>>>"Tuning" against all opponents ? >>>>I would call this "improving" instead of "tuning". >>> >>> >>>RIGHT! >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>Which is what I said, an engine upgrade. Tuning an engine, is when you upgrade >>it. Did I not write it that way ? You tune an engine you are upgrading the >>quality of it, right ? > > >Weren't you talking about tuning against a specific opponent or against a >specific subset of opponents? > > > > Christophe I was talking about tuning the engine, which includes the learning feature for programs that have it. And tuning the engine so when it has played aginst programs a certain amount of times and the programmers see an area where it can improve it tunes the engine towards that area. Which is basically an engine upgrade. I will be interested to see now that other programs will be able to play tiger how long it stays were it is. People were very happy to say CM6K would be dead because it has no learning feature and that it would be about 5th or 6th best on the 200MMX machines. Well it is still No 1 on the 200MMX machines, this is after programs with learning functions have had a chance to learn, and still cannot get ahead of it. It will just take some time to see how things develope, to see how much they want to attack tigers lead. If it remains on top, I think you will see a much bigger attempt to knock it off from other people. P.S - Do you notice that I can bring CM6K into just about any of my posts :)
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