Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 11:51:26 04/15/04
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On April 14, 2004 at 04:48:50, Dave Gomboc wrote: >You may be interested in checking out my M.Sc. Thesis, "Tuning Evaluation >Functions by Maximizing Concordance". An unofficial version of it is now >available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~dave. > >The purpose of the work is to provide a metric by which one can assess whether a >change to their heuristic evaluation function has been beneficial or not. It >includes and expands upon work reported at ACG-10 in Graz. > >Feel free to post comments / questions / criticisms also! If there's something >I can quickly address (e.g. typos) I can perhaps correct it before I hand it in. > >If you have or know someone who has back issues of Computer-Schach und Spiele, >could you please check if I have the proper references for the Nunn tests (see >Nunn 1998 and Nunn 2000 in the reference section). Earlier Fred Friedel put me >into contact with Dieter Steinwender, but I haven't heard from him in a week or >so now, and I want to be 100% sure I have it right. > >Also, readers who know Dutch are welcome to verify that I've done the proper >thing with Martin van der Meulen. > >Dave As I understand, your paper goes like this (omitting background, proofs, implementation details, results, little things like that :) 1. Get 650,000 positions from Chess Informant with GM evals (e.g. +-, =, etc). 2. Divide positions into sets of +-, +=, =, etc. 3. Tune eval such that all the positions in the set '+-' evaluate higher than the positions in the set '+=' which all evaluate higher than positions in the set '=' (etc) using gradient search. Close? anthony
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