Author: Peter Berger
Date: 03:25:18 12/19/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 06:20:19, Uri Blass wrote: >>These lines would not be possible with the bookc.bin provided for download. >>Yesterday I had a short conversation with another WB engine author who said that >>testing against Crafty is mostly useless as it's only a booklearner test - so I >>am not alone with this observation. > >I totally disagree. > >I used other programs for testing but testing is not useless. Thanks for pointing out my sloppy wording. Of course the claim of uselessness only applied to the default setup. Also I don't think it was intended to be a scientific statement anyway ;). Peter >I am not interested in book at this point so I simply use the nunn match and I >do not see how testing can be useless. > >Note that I do not think to tune the program for the nunn match and I do not >think to change evaluation weight based on the nunn match(I do not think that it >is a simple task even if I wanted to do it). > >I played 30 games of the nunn2 match against Junior5 when Junior5 used 30 >minutes against 90 minutes of Movei and the result is 15-15 > >Another kind of test is to test the program against many programs when it gets 2 >games or 4 games against every program and again I do not find it useless. > >Uri
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