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Subject: Re: The Brick Wall

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:11:10 09/20/04

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On September 19, 2004 at 21:28:16, Uri Blass wrote:

[snip]

>There are cases that you can be almost sure of improvement in games based on the
>result of test suites.
>
>I do not claim that you can be almost sure on improvement based only on more
>solutions but when more conditions happen you can be almost sure that you have
>an improvment.
>
>For example if you solve almost every position faster and not solve only more
>positions and the only change that you did is in the order of moves you can be
>almost sure of an improvement.

for these things test suites are great. also for sanity checking your code after
making major changes. for anything else, i wouldn't rate them too high. i'm
using ECMGCP myself, but only to make sure things are still ok after a change.

cheers
  martin



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