Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:43:06 04/10/01
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On April 10, 2001 at 16:03:29, Rajen Gupta wrote: >hi john:jonas cohans(i think it was he)has also posted 2-3 new settings for >cm8000. maybe these could be now be tested with a constant opening book.(perhaps >the cohanas opening book as this has so far proved to be better than the default >books)the next step would be to test these against other progs and hopefully one >could arrive at a stronger setting for cm8000 > >rajen > >On April 09, 2001 at 14:05:27, John Merlino wrote: > >>I have finished some weekend testing of the books provided to me by Jonas >>Cohonas and Brian Kostick. The books were tested with (and against) the default >>personality. Here are the results: >> >>In 32 G/10 games: >>Kostick 18.5, CM8000 13.5 (+12 =13 -7) >>Cohonas 18.5, CM8000 13.5 (+14 =9 -9) >> >>In 32 G/60 games: >>CM8000 18.0, Kostick 14.0 (+9 =18 -4) >>CM8000 20.5, Cohonas 11.5 (+13 =15 -4) >> >>I am sending the games to Jonas and Brian, but if anybody else wants them, let >>me know.... >> >>jm You can see from my testing results that the Cohonas book has, in no way, "proved to be better than the default book". Also, testing with both a changed book AND a changed personality is not really proper testing procedure. If the modified personality is better than the default, is it because the book is better, or the personality, or a combination of both? jm
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