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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 11:20:29 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 don't think so, the randomness of tactical shots which is certainly present in
short time controls will be distributed according to the strength of the search
_and_ evaluation of the engines. I see no reason to believe that on shorter time
controls _random_ luch should play a significant role.

regards Joachim



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