Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:58:40 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 11:35:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Remember, Einstein said "everything is relative". :) > >The absolute score really doesn't mean a lot. What matters is >the difference in scores between different positions. IE does a >bigger + really mean a bigger advantage? > >Comparing scores between two engines is just like comparing search >depths, or anything else. Yes. This is one of the reasons I dislike that the GUI takes care of resigning in the UCI protocol. I suppose this is done by observing when the scores returned by the losing engine drops below a certain threshold and stays there for a few moves. This doesn't make much sense when some engines consistently return bigger scores than others. Tord
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