Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:17:26 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 07:23:53, Russell Reagan wrote: >What exactly do you want beta testers to do? Just play against the program? Or >play the program against other programs? Or what? I'd be glad to help out, but >I'd like to know what I'm doing before I sign up. > >Russell I want to do matches of 40 games of the program against other programs. I did some matches on my computer but I prefer to have more results in order to compare with results of later movei. It is also possible to do matches against the same program at different time control in order to find if other programs earn more or less from time than movei. I know that christhophe said that he does not do matches against other programs in order to decide about improvement but I think that it is a mistake not to do matches against other programs. I do not say that I need to test every change that I do by a match but matches are needed before deciding if to release a new version. There is a lot to do about improving the search but I decided that at this point I am interested to see how much I can get by improving the evaluation. The search rules of the latest movei is almost the same as the search rules of the public version. The latest movei is less materialistic but still has not a lot of knowledge. I decided not to work on evaluating pawn structure at this moment and I prefer to improve the mobility evaluation first(it is already improved relative to the public version but I have ideas about improvement of it). Evaluation of pawn structure may also be dependent on mobility and this is the reason that I do not touch pawn structure at this moment. Uri
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