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Subject: Re: Evaluation Accuracy

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 14:46:20 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 12:37:20, Amir Ban wrote:

>>IMHO, a truly accurate evaluation of a position would yield one of the following
>>3 ordinal values:
>>
>>Win
>>Draw
>>Lose
>>
>>-g
>>
>>>Amir
>
>I can easily fake evaluation that gives only those values. I suppose that you
>mean that the values should be true values. How do you propose to do that ? If I
>have an eval that gives absolutely correct values 60% of the time (and the rest
>wrong), do you expect my program to be weak or strong ? If I get 70% right, am I
>necessarily stronger ?
>
>The question is, given two evaluation functions, to decide which is more
>accurate.
>
>This is a good question. Your answer does not seem to lead anywhere.
>
>Amir

Sorry, I didn't intend to lead anywhere - just a quick thought about "evaluation
accuracy".

-g



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