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Subject: Re: Deep Thought eval -- Request by Stuart C

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 10:38:30 12/24/05

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On December 24, 2005 at 11:08:43, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
> Stuart,
>
>  I looked it over. Looks nice and well thought out.
>  However, it is a tuner and it takes effort to base
>  an evaluation function on it. I implemented a simplified
>  version some years ago for NoonianChess and it made my
>  program worse. I tried tweaking NoonianChess' eval parameters
>  based on the parameters it has and it made it worse.
>
>     I must admit this is just my results. Done differently
>  maybe it would have made it better.
>
>   Also, a paper was published in the ICCA journal on the tuning
> efforts using the code. Refer to ICCA Journal Vol. 20 No. 4 December
> 1997, T.S. Anantharaman: Evaluation Tuning for Computer Chess: Linear
> Discrimination Methods.
>
>     It is a very good read. The conclusions are interesting and some
>  are obviously good areas to pursue.
>
>  Charles

Charles - thanks - do you mind if I post your post to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chesstune/

?

Stuart





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