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Subject: Re: Future Rebel will allow significant user parameter adjustment

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:19:47 07/21/99

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On July 21, 1999 at 05:44:30, blass uri wrote:

>>I am sure that CSTal and the King could profit from adjusted settings because
>>there are so many parameters to be tuned so that I assume that the programmers
>>didn't have the time and the intention to adjust them.
>
>The source code of the king and tal is not free so you cannot know the number of
>parameters that they have in their programs if they do not tell it.
>
>I have no information if they have more or less parameters then other programs
>like Hiarcs or Mchess.
>
>The number of parameters that you can tune as a user in chessmaster is bigger
>but it does not prove that the number of real parameters is bigger.

I didn't say that.

>I believe that chessmaster like many programs use piece square tables in the
>evaluation function and you cannot tune these hundreds of numbers
>
>Uri

But if you don't try you will never know. I am sure that these dozens of
parameters which CAN be adjusted within CM and CSTal WILL change the strength if
you tune them, no matter if there are other hundred parameters one cannot tune.



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