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[Fermin Serrano]

Should it work?

I have been thinking about ways to improve testing time results. People usually use tournaments from startup position, or tournaments with a set of very limited set of position (i.e. 32), or tournaments with a lot of random positions. I asumme all people is doing this with a minimum of 1000 to 4000 games.

.... but ....

what about repeating the same tournament, with the same opponents, with the same positions per opponent?. Assuming a set of positions would be very large....

example:
Game 1, agains Crafty, black, posicion from FEN file 'myfenpositions.epd', number of position 540
Game 2, agains Critter, white, position from FEN file 'myfenpositions.epd', number of position 3251
....
etc

the idea is that the number of position would be always the same and not choosed ramdomly, without repeating any FEN, but enought varied.
The tournament file from the tournament manager would always be the same, without the need to recreate the tournament. The test would always repeat the same.

Would be results between tests more accurate than randomly choose the startup position.?
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Fermin Serrano
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