Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:55:53 08/25/01
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On August 25, 2001 at 05:20:42, Frank Phillips wrote:
>On August 25, 2001 at 00:25:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>
>>Yes. After Paris I have started to STOP relying on my personal feelings about
>>how my program should play.
>>
>>I have started to build objective tools (in which my subjectivity could not
>>influence) to evaluate my program and evaluate if changes were good or not.
>>
>>So since early 1998 I do not study closely lost games anymore, unless I can see
>>a clear repeated pattern in these losses.
>>
>>Since I have started to use this method, my program has dramatically improved.
>>So I do not see any reason to return to the old way of doing it.
>>
>>That's why I'm not going to give any particular importance to the losses that
>>happened during this WMCCC. That's my usual way of handling this...
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Christophe
>
>With all the information available, xboard, help from Bob and Bruce, fast
>computers and sustained effort, it seems reasonably straight forward to write a
>decent chess program that can beat most humans on the planet. Stepping up into
>the class of the commercials (and Bob and Bruce) is a different matter –
>something you obviously did with great success, without having to rely on
>superfast hardware.
>
>Are you prepared to give any concrete details about your approach to testing?
>It has clearly been successful - certainly much more so that my random changes
>inspired by disappointment at yet another loss.
>
>Frank
No I'm not prepared to explain how I test. I think it's better for the
programmers to figure out by themselves.
Christophe
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