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Subject: Re: Are over-optimistically evaluations stronger than realistic evaluations?

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 11:08:49 04/27/03

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On April 27, 2003 at 04:58:59, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On April 26, 2003 at 20:18:23, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 26, 2003 at 19:15:04, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>Today I started an interesting experiment.
>>>A match Chessmaster 9000 against Shredder 7.04 in Chessbase GUI with
>>>over-optimistically settings for The King 3.23.
>>>With this settings The King engine evaluates his positions almost always as
>>>better for himself, except it is completely lost.
>>>
>>>Surprisingly a 30 game match ended:
>>>Chessmaster 9000 - Shredder 7.04:  15.5-14.5 (+12 =7 -11)
>>>5 min, AMD 2200+, ponder off, Remis.ctg, alternate colours
>>>
>>>I told The King that the own qeen is better than the opponents qeen, the own
>>>rooks are better than the opponent rooks, the own bishops are better than the
>>>opponent bishops and so on...
>>>
>>>Its over-optimistically evaluations dont hurt at all.
>>>
>>>The evaluations were way off but it nevertheless won the match and played a lot
>>>of exciting games although it lacks resistance in worse positions.
>>>Chessmaster played very strong in positions it had an advantage.
>>>
>>>Therefore I think it should be a good idea to have completely different
>>>evaluations.
>>>For clearly better positions an optimistically evaluation (Shredder obviously
>>>has very high scores in such positions) and for worse positions a more realistic
>>>evaluation.
>>
>>What is your definition os optimistically evaluation
>>If you multiply the score by 2 when you have a clear advanatage then you also
>>can describe it as an optimistically evaluation when you have a clearly better
>>position.
>
>Slightly better scores for own material and most important:
>High scores for positional factors (Mobility for example).
>Sometimes there is in fact no real compensation for the material and the
>programs lose badly (a pawn or an exchange down in the endgame) but this seems
>to work very often.
>

When I created my "Junior" personality, it was precisely this type of engine
that I was trying to create.  Your settings so far seem better (i.e. stronger)
than my Junior settings.  You note that your version sometimes loses a pawn or
exchange, for what turns out to be no valid reason.  I saw the same thing with
my Junior personality.  I'm glad yours is turning out to be aggressive *and*
strong!  Even if it turns out to be just slightly weaker than CM9K_SKR, it is
still a valuable addition to the stable of CM9000 personalities!

Roy



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