Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 09:57:49 10/06/04
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On October 06, 2004 at 10:45:46, Tony Hedlund wrote: >On October 06, 2004 at 08:32:20, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>Alpha Pocket Crafty 19.17 SE in alpha stage. It is playing within a GUI , will >>have most ofthe SE features. >> >>Personality Opening Books - Plan is now to generate opening books that will >>just about every move the "real" personality played in their games for about the >>first 20 - 25 moves. Of course, you have to play what their opponents played >>for it to stay in the personality book. Fischer personality book will be >>completed first. It is very cool. It really give you a sense of the openings >>the personality played. > >Hi Mike, > >In the Arena Event Forum they say that 19.17 is weaker then earlier 19.xx >versions. Is that true? > >Tony I have not done enough testing personally to make that call. Normally, each new version is a little better. Occasionally, there are enough changes to fix things, that overall it may seem to be weaker. In many of the standard position tests I run, 19.7 did very well. But position testing is not the same as game testing. I think it also depends on the length of game. Some vesion may be better at blitz, others may be longer at LTC. It is very hard to make assesments, because you really need hundreds of games to get type of evidence that is statistically reliable. Plus computer vs computer may yield different results than humand vs computer. A change that may be strong for humans may hurt againt computers. Bob Hyatt has been doing for a long time, I would trust his judgment for which version is best. Most of his testing is against humans. We have plenty of computer vs computer testing being done. We actually need more human (GM) vs computer at LTC to how we (as a group) are doing. There is just not enough games being played by GMs against computers that are being published.
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