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Subject: Re: Validity of self-play testing

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:37:27 05/22/00

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On May 22, 2000 at 03:22:37, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>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

I know that Amir Ban found the same thing with Junior5 and this is the reason
that Junior6a cannot find the famous sacrifice of Junior against nimzo from
WCCC.

Uri



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