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Subject: Validity of self-play testing

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 00:22:37 05/22/00

Recently I've noticed that my program tends to overvalue pawns, so I've been
playing with reducing the pawn value.  How does one test such a change?  Not
easily thats for sure!

One thing I did was play 150 games vs the old version (new version scored 56% -
yay), but I'm a little suspicious about how useful this information is.  For
starters the time control was fast (2min + 2sec inc, on P133), although does
this really matter for this type of change?

I guess I'll probably just go with the new version and keep an eye on its play
on ICC...

cheers,
Peter

• Re: Validity of self-play testing Andrew Williams 00:52:22 05/23/00
• Re: Validity of self-play testing Albert Silver 07:03:14 05/22/00
  • Re: Validity of self-play testing Peter McKenzie 16:55:54 05/22/00
    • Re: Validity of self-play testing Simon Waters 16:32:13 05/25/00
      • Re: Validity of self-play testing Albert Silver 13:50:55 05/26/00
        • Re: Validity of self-play testing Simon Waters 08:15:01 05/31/00
          • Re: Validity of self-play testing Albert Silver 08:02:17 06/01/00
      • Re: Validity of self-play testing Christophe Theron 10:32:15 05/26/00
• Re: Validity of self-play testing blass uri 00:37:27 05/22/00
  • Re: Validity of self-play testing Peter McKenzie 16:47:14 05/22/00
  • Re: Validity of self-play testing blass uri 00:40:23 05/22/00

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