Author: Willie Wood
Date: 11:29:47 12/12/97
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On December 11, 1997 at 21:23:39, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On December 11, 1997 at 20:05:01, Mark Young wrote: > >>10 more games with the same setting as before for mcp7 and a new version >>of ferret. The first 10 games i scored +5 =2 -3. In the the second 10 i >>am down so for +0 =1 -4. I could of just sat on the rating but i am more >>interested in studying the games what ever happends. > >I tried to make it more aware of the case where someone has a king near >their advanced passed pawn. I also fiddled with king safety, because in >a game with a Crafty it thought that KRRB vs KRRB was a middlegame. Of >course KRRN vs KRRN was an ending, but that's not what was on the board >:-) > >I doubt this was responsible for any of the above, but who knows. > >bruce That's quite a turnaround for a bit of "fiddling." I saw a couple of those games last night, and it didn't look to be any contest (assuming Klamath is mcp7). I guess those results represent too small a sample to be significant. How many games do you think are required to get a good sample? I'm interested because, in developing my own program, I want to know how much testing is usually done to test program changes. Seems like 10 games is not enough. WW
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