Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:48:00 12/10/97
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On December 09, 1997 at 18:37:37, Don Dailey wrote: >I never seriously considered playing my program Cilkchess on the >internet >for these very reasons. It's probably a good thing if all you really >want is to get in some games in and find weaknesses, but I get very >uncomfortable with ambiguious results. This was frustrating to read, given that it was prompted by something that I wrote. My program has been on the net for three years, and having it there has helped me a lot. I wish that you'd get yours on the net as well, and would hope that others would also do this. I get a wide variety of opponents. Sometimes you knew exactly who you are playing, and get a good idea of how you stand against that account. Other times you don't know what bet you -- it could have been Roman playing on a ghost accounts, it could have been another computer plus a passive operator, it could have been a human assisted by a computer, or it could have been some fish who found a hole in your program. So you get a wide variety of losses to learn from. For about a month before Paris I looked at every game, every day. Since then I've taken a break, but I have to catch up. I have 1114 games to look at (at least 260 with IM's or GM's, and a couple hundred with other computers) , including 196 losses or draws. This will take a while, but I'm going to look at each of those games, starting with the losses, of course. I'm sure I will plug some holes in the book, discover some middlegame mistakes, and get some ideas for more endgame knowledge. I think this is very worthwhile, considering that all I had to do to get this data is connect to the net and wait. How do you get games? Do you auto-test? Do you have strong players that play a lot of games with your program? bruce
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