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Subject: Re: 3 interviews about engine protocols with T. Mann, R. Hyatt and M. Blume

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 12:12:36 08/16/02

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On August 16, 2002 at 13:14:37, Will Singleton wrote:

>On August 16, 2002 at 03:09:05, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>
>>
>>I made a tool for automatic tuning of an engine but there have been zero
>>feedback on this so I guess most found this sort of tools useless.
>>
>>Odd Gunnar
>
>What tool was this?

This was a tool that looped through a testset (epd-file) and adjusted evaluation
for each run.

If you f.ex. had command in the engine like this:

set bishoppair 40
set rookonseventhrank 30
set doublepawnpenelty -20
etc.

You tell the program with a input file like this:

(Command|Min value|Max value|Step)

set bishoppair|0|80|10
set rookonseventhrank|0|70|10
set doublepawnpenelty|-50|0|10


It could loop throug all possible values for these settings and save the best
setting to a file.

Ex. first run

set bishoppair 0
set rookonseventhrank 0
set doublepawnpenelty -50

Next run would be with step = 10 for bishoppair

set bishoppair 10
set rookonseventhrank 0
set doublepawnpenelty -50

etc.

If you download the file

http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/GradualTest.zip

It should be in there, it is called adjusteval.exe

The source file is here:

http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/GradualTest_src.zip


The hard task is naturly to find enough position where the right move could be
found with pure evaluation, or at least with a searchdept of 2 - 3.

I used Dann Corbit's quiet possition for this with first take away all moves
that needed some searchdepth to find. I used the gradualtest (also in the
packed) for this sou I could automatic the process.

I also had another thing in my thought when I made it. To make personalities for
my engine. It could be easier to find position for this because you don't look
for the overall best move.

Odd Gunnar



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