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Subject: Re: Tuning? Rubbish!

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:39:48 12/16/99

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On December 16, 1999 at 02:56:56, Michael Cummings wrote:

>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.

I guess that it is number 1 on the 200MMX because there is no tiger on p200MMX.
if you assume the same difference relative to Fritz532 then tiger is number 1
on p200MMX

Uri




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