Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:16:42 03/24/04
I think that some test to test the quality of free source code evaluation may be interesting. The test should be done in the following way: 1)Modify arasan's evaluation to be identical to phalanx's evaluation Modify it also to be identical to fruit's evaluation and the same for the other free programs. Do the same for other free chess programs so you have many versions for every free program with source code. 2)Do most of the program slower by adding loops that do nothing. For example if you needed to do arasan 10 times slower in nodes per second to do it's evaluation identical to resp and it was the worst case then take care that all the program are 10 times slower in nodes per second by adding loops that do nothing. 3)Now start to compare between programs and find rating for every program in blitz 1+1 time control by hundred of games(if you started with 10 free programs then you have 100 programs) Note that it may be possible to have problems in part of the cases if free source code chess programs use parts of the evaluation for pruning decision and not only the standard chess techniques but I think that the main problem is to modify the free chess programs with no bugs. How much time do you think that a good programmer need to do the last task? Uri
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