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Subject: Re: Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 03:19:28 12/12/99

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On December 12, 1999 at 05:45:01, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:

>On December 11, 1999 at 21:14:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>>  Why is this Test secret??
>>
>>
>>Because this guarantees that nobody will tune his program to do well in this
>>test.
>
>I wasn't aware that programmers "tuned" their programs to do well in test
>suites.  In any case, if this tuning not only improves the scores in the test,
>but also improves the actual performance of the program, then the test should be
>available.

The tuning improves the performance of a program in a given test suite, nothing
else. It is as simple as cooking a few positions and tell the program the right
answers.

Enrique

>Baldo.



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