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Subject: Re: Test position software... whats out there already?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:19:53 04/27/04

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On April 27, 2004 at 22:10:56, Joel wrote:

>Hey Dann,
>
>When you say tune, do you mean the evaluation function only?
>
>If this is the case,  don't even think you could say you improved your tactical
>strength if you just tuned it for a few (or maybe many testsuites). What I think
>would be likely is that you would be mucking your eval terms up so they solved
>the positions the search struggled with, with the dominating woodcount along
>with the search doing well in the rest of the positions.
>
>Is there someplace you suggest (your ftp perhaps?) where I can find a bit more
>information about this parabolic fit technique you use? I would be interested in
>trying some experiments of my own with it.

ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/beocurve.zip

Take a look at curve.c, pers.c, and parser.c

The test positions are defined in testdat.h



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