Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 15:19:47 12/30/00
When I started with changing parameters I actualy did two things of course step one was playing these comp- comp games but also keep an eye on the position and it's think lines But I think what helped me most was my routine in anelyzing the position deeply And tried to make the program play like what I had in mind when I made these anelyzes if this worked I tried an other position if the program again did not find the corect moves I tried to look what could help in that position and not changing the parameters to much Then I went back to the first position and looked if it still played the same moves for that position But what helped most was actualy to change the selctivety quite some times For Rebel this was 125 for most of the personelety and something in 115 for an other personelety To my point of vieuw Alexander1 is as strong as Century 3 can get. But I think the program it self can be improved a lot with updating the positional knowledge of couse it should be possible to find the best parameters if you make a big schedule of beta testers and make them play all with small diferece so betta test on changes the parameter with a passed pawn of 110 an other with a small differense mobilety and so on and so till you have tried all available combinations you have in the parameters then not use it in the mean time for playing against it's one engine but also against diferent engines then pick the one who scores the best You can be sure the parameters are optimal then one Big backdraw is to this it a can't be realy a comercial programmers because you have to have to manny beta testers. b if it is a non comercial program who is intrested in doing all this work and being realistic about the scores without getting payed for it So the answer is yes it is possible to find the perfect parameters for a program theoreticaly But not in this world practicaly
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