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Subject: Re: CM8000: Testing of Cohonas and Kostick Books

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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