Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 12:20:32 07/27/04
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Hi >>Of course I delete the learning for both engines!!! All I wanted to do is having >>the same clean start for both engines. The engine that is having white would >>have the possibility to learn something for its "black" game that the other >>engine could not do when having black first. > >That logic is broken. If an engine plays black, it learns for "both sides". If >an engine is white, the same thing holds. Disabling learning seems wrong, since >it is a part of each engine, depending on how well it is implemented. Tuning >bits of a program on or off on a whim seems somehow wrong unless the goal is >_not_ to measure the strength of the entire "entity" but rather to measure the >strength of a subset... I think this is quite "nit-picking" (right term? Sorry if too strong!). 1. It is been done for both engines! 2. Ok. if I take you definition Then I have to change my match to "I want to check how the engines behave "out of the box"" 3. I did some engine-test for some other programmers who direclty adviced my either to disable learning for every engine (but to remove doublets except one) or to delete learn files after on round of the match. What do you think about this proposal: I finish the match with deleted learn-files, and we will see what the result is. Then I delete the lernfiles for both engines and do the whole match again without deleting lernvalues half way through the match. There is only ONE thing YOU have to do. After the first match is finished (around thursday evening) YOU have to give a guess about the outcome of the second match! If you agree to that I will do another 70h of testing! We will see if there is any considerable difference (which I doubt with only 40 games) to the first match. I think this dispute is about nothing! Regards Ingo
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