Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 10:58:57 09/22/04
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On September 22, 2004 at 13:48:00, Volker Böhm wrote: >Hi Uri, > >as Spike is still only a patzer it needs a good opening book. Spike is a little >weak in opening positions. It does not develop its pieces well if not done by >the book. We are working on this issue :-) > >By the way: I don´t think that 20-30 games prove anything. I recently had a >funny effect: I made spike a little faster (about 7%) just to see it getting >worst. In a fixed tournament situation (against one other engine, 100 predefined >positions, book = off) it dropped form 51% to 42% in 200 games. The engine is >doing exactly the same, just a little faster (I compare node count in a WM Test >suite with fixed search depth to prove it does exactly the same). > >Greetings Volker With that extra speed it became more confident of those speculative moves it should not have been playing. Thats what makes this hobby so much fun. Find a clear bug like a sign reversed in an evaluation term, fix it, and the engine plays worse. Go figure. Dan H.
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