Introducing PET

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Rebel
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Introducing PET

Post by Rebel »

PET stands for Practical Engine Tuning meant for starters.

The PET package is a ready to use platform (everything pre-installed) for engine testing (tuning) and consist 3 parts.

1.Gold digging (hunting) for candidate improvements in a fast way;
2.The actual testing of those candidate improvements playing eng-eng matches;
3.Managing eng-eng matches.

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http://rebel13.nl/rebel13/pet.html

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Albert Silver
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Re: Introducing PET

Post by Albert Silver »

Nice one, Ed! Thanks!
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Re: Introducing PET

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Thanks Albert.

Added the promised (stand alone, universal) match control, was easier than I thought.
LOS.EXE is a simple command line tool that will read the PGN of your matches and stores the overall information in a text-based database called LOS.TXT whereafter your browser will start and show you the results. When using the 6 Fruit and 2 Stockfish matches of this page we get:
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