Author: Keith Kitson
Date: 10:47:46 01/17/00
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I have found the Fischer personality to be one of the strongest. It appears to do better than the rebel setting at 60m in 1hr. Keith On January 17, 2000 at 11:32:55, Shep wrote: >On January 17, 2000 at 09:56:27, Roy Brunjes wrote: > >>So, Q3 personality is in all likelihood NOT stronger than Rebel Century >>defaults, in my opinion. I would be very surprised if it were. Q3 DOES, >>however, provide the best/quickest solutions to the tactical problems that were >>included with the Rebel Century CD; I forget the exact name of the file that >>contains those tactical positions. > >I have been experimenting with Century personalities myself a lot (though I did >not participate in the contest), and I have found that those which perform best >in the test suites I threw at them usually played very poorly in actual games. > >In most cases (Q3 is a good example, I had several personalities very similar to >this one) they favour sacrifices a lot (esp. when "Attractiveness" is set high), >which is very good for most test positions, but they also tend to sacrifice just >about anything in a game, e.g. they give away a knight for a pawn without any >reason and end up losing. > >It just goes to show that optimizing for test suites does not yield a really >strong program. :) >(Junior is a good example for the opposite; performs much worse on most test >suites than other top commercials, yet is one of the strongest players around.) > >--- >Shep
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