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Subject: Re: methods for testing changes

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:10:41 05/30/01

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On May 30, 2001 at 05:57:54, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>it seems as if the last modifitication I made made Hossa play
>worse. What I need are some good methods for testing. At the moment my
>testing is rather chaotic. I observe games at ICC and if I see
>something strange I try to fix it. Then I let Hossa play again at ICC
>and look how it works. "to see how it works" is surely not a good way
>for testing and the ICC rating isnt also reliable.
>
>I know from others that they do basically the same. I am not happy
>with this at all. I rather would like to see a well defined strategy
>how to test changes automatically. Here is some short brain storming
>and I would like to get some feedback.
>

Something I have done is get a good set of high quality grandmaster games with
suggested improvements for errors, and see how often your program agrees with
the grandmasters.



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