Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:54:42 10/17/03
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On October 17, 2003 at 12:13:43, Yen Art Tham wrote: >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? It is my_ware. Ed
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