Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 12:39:08 12/16/05
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On December 16, 2005 at 08:57:31, Albert Silver wrote: >>One thing people tell me is that Rybka tends to stick with her moves from lower >>depths more than other engines. This would also suggest better blitz play. > >Interesting. I've been testing her personalities for the moment, since it is >easier to test fast games than slow, and so far it does seem she may be a better >blitz player though. Another intersting thing is that in CEGT, the Very Tactical >personality is yielding an almost identical rating to the Very Positional one. >My own tests are now extending into the Slightly Tactical one, and again, I get >the feeling there won't be any groundbreaking differences. > >I'll post the results I have already shortly. > > Albert Yes, it's the eternal problem testing small changes. 1000 games gives a 20-point variance (with 95% confidence). Many changes are much smaller than that. That's why intuition is always important - and my intuition is for the "very positional" setting. Vas
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