Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:41:46 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 13:19:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 There have been examples of programs cooking test positions. And once, on ICC, a programmer told me in public that if I would publish my own test suite he would cook it on the spot. So... Enrique
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