Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:18:32 07/25/00
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On July 25, 2000 at 17:38:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 25, 2000 at 14:12:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>It would be nice to make a change to your evaluation function and get immediate, >>accurate feedback. >> >>So my idea is to get a huge collection of positions of known value (i.e., "white >>has a stronger position") and then see how well the known values correlate to >>the evaluation function's scores. >> >>Does anybody have any ideas for getting a high-quality collection of such >>positions? Or any comments on this approach in general? > >On my ftp site, project Apocalypse for CAP has an analysis of about 7000 EPD >positions. You could take any subset from that set as a basis. There are about >5000 or so which are definitely verified, so I suspect you could use them. >However, there are also some where the bm does not agree with the pm or the am >is the pm. Isn't the CAP data calculated via computer? So already there's some "noise" from an evaluation function. -Tom
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