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Subject: Re: Most brilliant novelty from cct7 Witchess-Arasan

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 17:05:27 02/15/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 15:57:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 15, 2005 at 15:09:14, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2005 at 14:18:16, Peter Berger wrote:
>>
>>>On February 15, 2005 at 14:03:38, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 15, 2005 at 09:29:58, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 15, 2005 at 06:46:04, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 15, 2005 at 02:56:54, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 14, 2005 at 20:08:42, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On February 14, 2005 at 19:54:03, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Yes, you opposed this point of view multiple times before in discussions
>>>>>>>>>with Uri , but I think you never managed to score.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Of, I have managed to score several games during the year 2004.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>That's just a misunderstanding, because I worded badly :). My "scoring" only
>>>>>>>applied to the discussions, not to the quality of your work on the opening book.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Btw - it's not trivial to think of a good and practical experiment to setup to
>>>>>>>show who is right.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Well, I have already done such an experiment and I know who will give the
>>>>>>easiest point. It is great because it will mean easy points.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>However, I would not spend again valuable time repeating the same nonsense
>>>>>>experiment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Arturo.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think you can't really do such a test properly on your own. And it would be so
>>>>>extremely time-consuming to do in a realistic way, that I doubt anyone has ever
>>>>>really done it.
>>>>>
>>>>>You mentioned the major problem I see in another post, learning as done by a
>>>>>book author. This is a factor that has to be taken into account.
>>>>>
>>>>>If you take your opening book as prepared for some major event, it is probably
>>>>>nearly 100% deterministic at start of some round. If you run it against an
>>>>>automatically learning book in longer matches to get a measure for the quality
>>>>>of your work, it will get beaten badly. It might do well in the first few games,
>>>>>until the opponent finds some hole ( which in this case means just some line
>>>>>where it can beat "your" engine) - then it will repeat it in the following
>>>>>games.
>>>>
>>>>How do you know that a book mine is so "deterministic"? How do you base your
>>>>facts in more suppositions without any proof? Well, I can argue that I have done
>>>>such tests but I wont  reveal how I do such tests.
>>>
>>>It was an assumption, because it is just reasonable to have a deterministic book
>>>at the start of a given game. Why throw dices if you have an idea which move is
>>>best in a given situation ? This doesn't mean that you don't have several
>>>alternatives prepared. Of course there are other ways to do things, no doubt.
>>>
>>>>>This is not a realistic test of what would happen in a tournament.
>>>>>
>>>>>But if you allow yourself to update the book during rounds, you have to allow
>>>>>your opponent to do the same. Else it is not realistic again. Even
>>>>>engines/authors who have a little book ,that is much shorter but every move
>>>>>checked, will react to what happens in the tournament games. E.g. Uri chose to
>>>>>just switch books after watching a movei opening he didn't like in cct7.
>>>>>
>>>>>The difference between a highly optimized book and one that just has few
>>>>>adaptions is mostly in quantity in this discussion. While the optimized book
>>>>>will usually have a few thousand manually entered lines the latter might have
>>>>>only sth up to 50 ( numbers arbitrary chosen). The question is if you can be
>>>>>sure that with the huge number of lines you don't add more garbage than quality
>>>>
>>>>Well, As you said "usually" and  your book was one thousand lines book. My book
>>>>is bigger than only 1000 lines.
>>>>
>>>>This is not a relevant question because I dont generate a random book. My book
>>>>has over 200000 lines added by hand. Sometimes, my decision about line has not
>>>>been convenient. Maybe, you choose arbitraly  your numbes. I dont know how you
>>>>od it and I am not interested in. My books are higly checked by hands.
>>>>Sometimes, I dont have enough time to test them with the engines and it possibly
>>>>means a bad result. But your question is not relevant of how I do my books.
>>>
>>>I think we are getting nowhere here. I wasn't trying to steal your ideas on how
>>>you do books or test them, but you obviously got this impression. This was meant
>>>to be a thought experiment - oh and yes, "mine" is bigger than 1000 too :)
>>>
>>>Be well
>>>Peter
>>
>>From all this brain storming, I can remark just one fact: Your performance in
>>CCC2004 was outstanding and nobody can deny that. :)
>
>I think that Crafty did the expected result in WCCC.
>I think that the biggest surprise of WCCC was the performance of Jonny2.64
>and it can be explained by luck or by a good book(I did not analyze Jonny
>games).
>
>Uri

I am not saying anything about expected results. I said that Peter Berger was
very important for Crafty in that Tournament. The rest is not relevant.





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