Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:58:36 08/25/01
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On August 25, 2001 at 07:43:33, Uri Blass wrote:
>On August 25, 2001 at 00:25:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2001 at 13:47:33, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2001 at 13:44:53, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>So I'll do as I always do after a big tournament: I'll NOT study closely the
>>>>lost games (unless I can see a gross mistake by quickly browsing thru the games)
>>>>and keep on working as I do normally.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>after paris, you were that disapointed that you worked very hard.
>>>as a result your program developed into a very very strong program.
>>>
>>>do you remember ?
>>
>>
>>
>>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...
>
>I believe that looking at games may be productive not for deciding about new
>changes but for getting new ideas for changes.
>
>You can continue to use your objective tool in order to decide if the ideas are
>good or bad.
I did not say the opposite. I look briefly at the games (when I have the time to
do so), and sometimes I catch something. Like a pattern already seen in some
other game for example. And it indeed suggests me some changes for the future.
What I do not do is take a single loss and work on the program until it does not
make the mistake anymore. I have done that in the past, and it is a sure way to
break the engine.
Christophe
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