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Subject: Re: A new selective heuristic?

Author: jonathan Baxter

Date: 00:40:20 06/23/98

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On June 22, 1998 at 17:42:59, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>If my program does great on a test suite, maybe it means something.
>
>If I run a tactical suite, and a new version scores really really badly on it, I
>probably didn't make a tactical improvement.
>
>Likewise, if I make a performance improvement, and I end up reaching less depth
>in the same amount of time, the version is probably bogus.
>
>bruce

I used to run testsuites with KnightCap, until one day I tried running
with just a material evaluation function and got about 50% more correct!

Jon



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