Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:39:04 12/28/99
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>Posted by Dann Corbit on December 27, 1999 at 15:38:11: > >In Reply to: How to judge? posted by Ed Schröder on December 27, 1999 at >14:57:09: > >On December 27, 1999 at 14:57:09, Ed Schröder wrote: >[snip] >How to know which is best? > >I think Dr. Hyatt's approach is a good one -- play a bazillion games on the net >against quality opponents. I see that Chris W. and Vincent D. have also >followed this strategy. Since the new improvements to Rebel also allow this >kind of competition directly, I expect that you can gather a massive amount of >data with free testers at will. You can see how a change in Rebel performs >against top computers. You can see how a change in Rebel performs against top >humans. I suggest you may write a parameter driven version of Rebel (or an >engine that can write personalities to disk based upon a set of criteria) and >then run one hundred games with the parameter at one setting, change the setting >and run another hundred. Using this sort of technique, you can find out what >settings work best against various types of competition. I think that will work >very much better than your contest, since the attempts at producing good >settings by others will be redundant and unscientific, for the most part. > >By using the net as a resource, you double your compute power. By selling >copies of Rebel that can use the net as a resource you multiply your compute >power by the number of sales (e.g. you can gather a huge number of games from >the net and calculate strengths and weaknesses against rated opponents and you >don't even have to run them). > >Suggestion: >Have Rebel automatically annotate the network games with settings information so >that you can glean the effectiveness of various settings. That's indeed one of my plans. Play games on ICC automatically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The new Rebel outlook is good for it with its automatic play on servers. One account for playing against humans and another one for playing comps only. Ed
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