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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:57:40 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....

I think that there are cases when the evaluation is more important at blitz and
not at long time control.

For example some evaluation that help to win some winning position may be
imprtant at blitz when the search cannot find it when at long time control they
may be unimportant because search can find the win.

Uri



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