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Subject: Re: Nolot Positions #1

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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