Two rooks on the 7th is even better!

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David Dahlem wrote:Yasser Seirawan calls them 'pigs' in that context.Komodo will still have personalities. One new evaluation terms has been added, rook on the 7th. I read it in a book somewhere that it's good to put a rook on the 7th rank wrote:
Two rooks on the 7th is even better!
I have very surprised at the rate of improvement myself and I did not expect to release a version so quickly after the previous release. I hope it continues, but I cannot promise that.alpha123 wrote:Wow Don, impressive. I'm looking forward to it.
BTW You are now on my list of programmers that could challenge Vas....
You, Fabien, Anthony Cozzie, and Alex Naumov.....
Rybka could actually be in danger, after a few more versions of Komodo.
Congratulations,
Peter
Besides of being forced to read this forum, since I still work with one engine, The Baron, as a booker and I must be up-to-date of the new coming, I hope that Komodo's Authors keep some savviness and canniness.Damir wrote:Sorry forgot the link. Here it is:
http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... ?tid=15105
I think that it is dependent on the change that you dolkaufman wrote:The Elo increase depends on time limit (almost always, the faster the rate of play, the greater the increase due mostly to less draws).
If you try the engine to play as much in a human style then it may be good if you change the evaluation to evaluate branches and not leaves(I think that it is a good idea in many games and not only in chess).Don wrote:We try to make the engine play as much in a human style as possible, but currently strength trumps style. When it's a close call we try to make it evaluate more like a human grandmaster would.Highendman wrote:I'm looking forward to taking a new exciting legit engine for a spin.
In your tests, what's the ELO increase vs. Doch?
Another question: do you explicitly try 'give it a playing style' or is it more about tuning eval/search, and whatever gets the highest elo you're happy with?