Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 10:03:37 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.... Makes sense but not what I was hoping to hear. Every bonus/penalty in my evaluation is a pure guess. I need to tune, but the task is formidable. With limited time and resources I was hoping to use shorter time controls. Hopefully this project of Anthony and yours will produce something to help those like me. I'll be watching developments with interest. Dan H.
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