Author: Yen Art Tham
Date: 09:13:43 10/17/03
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On October 17, 2003 at 11:54:56, Ed Schröder wrote: >On October 17, 2003 at 11:18:43, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>On October 17, 2003 at 06:42:03, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>When there is something better I will provide it, but... it has to be in synch >>>with the Windows Rebel. Providing a stronger DOS version automatically will mean >>>a new Windows version too otherwise there will be confusion. >>> >>> >>>>A better style? What do you mean? >>> >>>Style = Personality = Engine Parameters >>> >>>There still is potential in the engine parameters, I am not exactly satisfied >>>with the current settings, it takes time to find out. > >>how do you procede here: I mean, I guess you are not interested in the pure >>eng-eng competition in this research. >>So what do you look for when you test a style? Just play and look how it behaves >>and if you like it or you try to reproduce GM games? > >Hi Franz, > >Nowadays I do it in 3 steps, first step is manually running about 150 selected >test positions of all kind, after this first smell of about 2½ hours I run a >bigger automatic testset of 700 positions that produces all kind of statistics, >makes comparisons with previous versions. If it still looks good I move the >version in eng-eng mode, the most time consuming and boring part, takes about 4 >days. I currently have 25 test versions on this list. Go figure. > >After that one is still not there. Suppose from the 25 versions only 8 produce a >somewhat better result then it doesn't mean you automatically can combine them >because it is quite well possible that 1, 2, 3... of these 8 bite each other and >you would endup with a weaker engine. > >Thus... a new process is started to find out which of the 8 candidate >improvements can live in peace with each other. In the meantime you are 4 months >further. > >This ends a chess programmers diary, take my words for it many engine >programmers do something similar. > >My best, > >Ed Are there any automatic testing programs available either freeware or comercial? yat
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