Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:19:11 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 13:00:02, Dann Corbit wrote: >A number of authors have stated in this forum that they use the WAC and other >test suites to tune their programs. This may or may not make them play better, >as you know. Consider that the Rebel settings for solving positions and the >Rebel settings for playing the strongest chess are different. > >Therefore, to tune purely to solve test suites is probably not the best way to >create a strong playing program (though it does produce decent chess). Using wellknown test positions to test if your program changes do a better job is something else than Bob said: quote: I have seen (a) programs tuned to choose the right move to improve their test result scores artificially; end quote Note the word artificially which implies cheating. This of course may be the case but then I would like to see it supported by examples. Ed
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