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Subject: Re: Which style is best for ProDeo 1.0 ?

Author: José Carlos

Date: 11:17:02 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 05:10:45, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>Hi
>
>>http://f50.parsimony.net/forum200336/messages/2551.htm
>>
>>tried these styles...
>
>What you propose is to use different styles vs. different engines. I think this
>is pretty worthless. If someone would change the S8 settings to "fit" you
>anti-S8 setting you are lost again and we have a race of settings for every
>engine. The whole concept of comparing engines would be out of bounds and not
>practical anymore.

  I think the idea is not bad. Humans players do this all the time (I avoid
sharp tactics against a very tactical player; I exchange pieces against an
oponent who plays endgames poorly, ...). In world championships, I bet
programmers/operator make small configuration changes depending on the opponent
(and of course in the book).
  Winboard tells the program the name of his opponent. I once had an idea to let
the program change some internal parameters depending on the opponent (actually,
Crafty does this when it plays a human or a computer, if I'm not mistaken).
Imagine I teach my program to: play a 100 games match against Crafty. Save the
configuration and result to a file. Do some random small changes and play
another 100 games match. Save result again... After some time, the program would
come up with a set of parameters that maximize results against Crafty. And all
automated.
  Could be tremendously improved, of course, but the idea itself is not so bad.

  José C.


>The question to you as a beta tester, what do you think is the best overall
>setting?
>
>Bye Ingo



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