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Subject: Measuring program improvement

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 15:46:35 11/16/01


I am somewhat frustrated.  I made some changes to Tinker adding lazy eval and
some other terms and then tested several things.

It improved nps speed by about 30%.

It improved WAC results.

It won or drew every self play game (blitz and standard).

Then I put the new version up to play at ICC.
It promptly lost 100 points in blitz and standard !?

This is not the first time that my "enhancements" seemed to improve things but
turned out to play worse in actual games.

Does this sort of thing happen to others too?

Thanks
Brian



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