Stockfish 5 Personality Test

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Re: Stockfish 5 Personality Test

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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Gusev wrote:Have you used Fishtest to get your promising Tahoma-walk parameter set tested massively against the baseline by Fishtest users and incorporated into the SF development version?
Stockfish's authors don't believe in personalities that are stronger than the default chess engine....

One of the authors had gone even fiurther by saying that changing the parameters of Stockfish is useless and have a placebo effect at best regards,
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I would assume that the defaults are the best overall in the Bell Curve, but I would expect some swing either way with varying time limits and small changes (at least within one Standard Deviation at least) :)
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Re: Stockfish 5 Personality Test

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Kirk wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Gusev wrote:Have you used Fishtest to get your promising Tahoma-walk parameter set tested massively against the baseline by Fishtest users and incorporated into the SF development version?
Stockfish's authors don't believe in personalities that are stronger than the default chess engine....

One of the authors had gone even fiurther by saying that changing the parameters of Stockfish is useless and have a placebo effect at best regards,
Dr.D
I would assume that the defaults are the best overall in the Bell Curve, but I would expect some swing either way with varying time limits and small changes (at least within one Standard Deviation at least) :)
Fair enough :D
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Re: Stockfish 5 Personality Test

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After just 123 ganes played, a slight lead
Rank Name Sto Sto Points S-B % Perf
1 Stockfish 5 64 SSE4.2 [Tahoma-Walk] X 63.0 63.0 / 123 3780.00 51.22%
2 Stockfish 5 64 SSE4.2 60.0 X 60.0 / 123 3780.00 48.78%


123 games played
Level: 15 Minutes/Game + 1 Seconds/Move
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Still mainting a small lead over the default engine after 311 games

Stockfish-Tahomawalk

Rank Name Sto Sto Points S-B % Perf
1 Stockfish 5 64 SSE4.2 [Tahoma-Walk] X 157.0 157.0 / 311 24178.00 50.48%
2 Stockfish 5 64 SSE4.2 154.0 X 154.0 / 311 24178.00 49.52%


311 games played
Level: 15 Minutes/Game + 1 Seconds/Move
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