Author: Howard Exner
Date: 12:35:23 12/10/97
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On December 10, 1997 at 13:48:00, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. Could you post a summary of what you discovered in the lost games. I don't mean posting the pgn's but stuff like how many duplicate opening busts where encountered. > >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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