Author: Shep
Date: 00:13:44 08/10/99
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On August 09, 1999 at 18:58:55, Dave Gomboc wrote: >Can I ask how you decided that these were very good settings? Is it mostly >based on "feel", or test suites, or tournament games, et cetera? How much >computation was performed before deciding on these settings? Depends on what you consider "deciding". The settings were originally composed just based on intuition (or "a wild guess" or "Voodoo", if you want :-). Didzis and I have been testing them then to make sure they were not really "offbeat". Scoring 7/10 against other commercial programs so far and 16/21 in test games against other CM personalities seems enough evidence they are "not bad" and "probably very good" (and I do not just look at the results, but at the way the games were played). Note that the main settings have probably been thoroughly tested by Mr Bednorz before recommending them; I have just tuned them slightly and improved (?) the piece values, just like I did back then with my "CM 5555". Maybe it was just luck again that my feeling about these settings was right, who knows? :-) --- Shep
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