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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 15:16:39 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 16:44:33, Vincent Diepeveen 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.
>
>Do you believe the commercial authors at home only test at 1 0 level?

No, but their situation is different than mine.  They have mature engines with
evaluation values that are somewhere near right.  I've got a green engine with
evaluation values that are junk.  I'm looking at short time control tests to get
me headed in the right direction.  Got to walk before you run. :)

Dan H.




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