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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:54:40 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 12:43:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 28, 2004 at 12:37:42, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>>On June 28, 2004 at 08:54:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>settings, and then N games with the new settings.  I am only really interested
>>>in longer timecontrols: 20 min + on an Athlon 2.0G or so (70 min on P-650, etc),
>>
>>
>>Why long time controls?  I thought you could test evaluation with shorter time
>>controls, search needed longer (or varied) time controls.  Am I out in left
>>field?
>>
>>Dan H.
>
>
>My personal belief is that longer controls are better.  Short games rely heavily
>on the search, and leaves a better chance for random luck to influence the
>outcome.  Deeper searches tend to make fewer tactical mistakes, leaving the
>outcome to the quality of the evaluation....

You have to balance that with the number of games you will get.
- Correspondence games will not give enough information.
- Bullet games will give a lot of information but probably not reliable enough.
The interesting question is then: Where is the optimum.
Quality versus quantity!
/Peter






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