Author: Johanes Suhardjo
Date: 11:31:36 03/13/00
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On March 06, 2000 at 11:46:38, Jay Scott wrote:
>But even if you corrected that, there's still the problem that the
>suite won't be matched to each different program's style of play. In a real
>game a program can try to reach positions that it knows how to play well,
>but in a suite it has to take what comes. If a program plays to its own
>strengths it may play better than its test results say, and if it doesn't
>then it may play worse.
>
>To get a relevant test suite, test each program on positions that occur
>in its own games. This is easily done by having it play games. :-)
Very well put!
Johanes Suhardjo (johanes@nd.edu)
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