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Subject: Re: SEE & accuracy

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 14:37:53 08/21/04

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David -- check your email at your comcast.net account. --Stuart

On August 21, 2004 at 15:18:45, David B Weller wrote:

>Hi Stuart,
>
>I follow your threads with great interest, for it seems we are at a similar
>level with our engines [I doubt as a programmer though]
>
>You may have addressed this once already:
>
>GES [my engine] is relatively slow, and thus prone to losing tactics. So I too
>use WACNEW.epd extensively to judge the merit of certain changes.
>
>But I have seen clearly, that what might increase correct answers, average
>depth, fail-high-1, branching factor, and any other metric I follow, will often
>make GES play worse.
>
>What I do, is just make sure the results from wacnew stay within a certain range
>[eg., >= 240 correct at 1sec/pos on AMD 1Ghz] and then test in some games with
>competitive opponents.
>
>Even if you only play a couple games, I think its safer, than making conclusions
>just after running wacnew.
>
>Ive seen this happen very clearly with GES.
>
>that'll be 0.02$,  :)
>
>-David



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