Author: David Dahlem
Date: 04:48:59 06/24/00
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On June 23, 2000 at 23:41:15, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On June 23, 2000 at 23:37:31, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On June 23, 2000 at 23:32:16, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On June 23, 2000 at 13:28:03, David Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>On June 23, 2000 at 11:18:33, Daniel Chancey wrote: >>>> >>>>>Your book, ~nunn.obk has only 403 book lines. This is unacceptable to be used >>>>>in tournaments or computer vs comptuer challenges. >>>>> >>>>>Castle2000 >>>> >>>>The Nunn book was created for testing personality settings only, not for >>>>strength. In my opionion, it gives more consistent results since neither side >>>>gets an advantage from the opening book. >>>>Dave >>> >>>The easier way to avoid an advantage without going thru the problems of >creating a specific book like the Nunn book, is to set an amount of games that >you are willing to test the personalities, for instance if your goal is to >only test it for 30 games, then let one personality plays 15 games with the >white pieces,then switch the personalities side of the board and replay those >15 previous opening, allowing both personalities to play 15 diferrent openings >with both sides of the board. > >PS: I forgot to mentioned that the first 15 games you simply allow the program >to select whatever opening it desire to play and of course eliminate a repeated >opening in the first 15 games. >>> >>>Pichard. Yes, that is one good way to run personality tests. Using an opening book with only equal lines is another. The ideal way to test is without using an opening book at all. Dave
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