Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:50:15 05/21/03
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On May 21, 2003 at 08:27:55, Aaron Tay wrote: >On May 20, 2003 at 17:33:14, Albert Silver wrote: > >>> >>>Johan spends a great deal of time testing his engine, and his testing results in >>>the settings that are used in the program. Johan then usually will test out his >>>theories/suspicions in tournaments such as Leiden. Ultimately, it would be silly >>>to say that somebody else knows The King better than (or even as well as) Johan. >> >>Maybe, maybe not. Ed Schroeder has often sent out contests for users to try to >>improve on his settings, or find settings with an edge in specific areas, and he >>certainly tested his program enough. This would seem to show that perhaps he >>doesn't believe it's impossible for a dedicated user to find an improvement. >> >> Albert > >but so far no-one managed to find a setting that plays better correct? some were >better at test suites, but no one managed to find a clearly better personality >in terms of playing strenght. > >perhaps this tells us something? That tells us that testers were simply lazy at that time and did not try all combination of changing one parameter. Ed found that reducing the chess knowledge of Rebel from 100 to 25 helps but no tester was able to find it. Uri
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