Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 03:56:15 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 03:39:48, blass uri wrote: >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 Does that mean I can assume that CM6K is number 1 on the 450 machines ? Well tiger might be number 2 behind CM6K on the 200MMX machines, and maybe CM6K on a 450 machine will play way better than anyone expected on the 450 hardware. You can assume that way Uri, but I will assume my way. Alls fair after all, right ?
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