Besides which, nobody has the resources to test at tournament time control.
That is true now, but I am not sure it is going to be always true.
If you had 2000 cores available, you could run a match of 50 games on each core and get 100,000 games. 50 games blitz (say 5+3) wouldn't take more than a few hours. 50 games rapid might take a day or so. And a lot of tests wouldn't take 100k games to show a significant result.
Stockfish has a few hundred cores in its testing network now. And the core counts on processors just keep going up.
Besides which, nobody has the resources to test at tournament time control.
That is true now, but I am not sure it is going to be always true.
If you had 2000 cores available, you could run a match of 50 games on each core and get 100,000 games. 50 games blitz (say 5+3) wouldn't take more than a few hours. 50 games rapid might take a day or so. And a lot of tests wouldn't take 100k games to show a significant result.
Stockfish has a few hundred cores in its testing network now. And the core counts on processors just keep going up.
--Jon
It is something that I do not understand.
Why so many people choose to give computer time to stockfish when they are not being able even to choose the time control that they test and what they test.
I think that a better model should be to allow people who give computer time to choose the patch that they test if they want to do it when maybe the default option will be not to choose a specific patch.
patches that the team consider as not interesting may be in a special set and only if a person ask to test them they will get computer time.
Besides which, nobody has the resources to test at tournament time control.
That is true now, but I am not sure it is going to be always true.
If you had 2000 cores available, you could run a match of 50 games on each core and get 100,000 games. 50 games blitz (say 5+3) wouldn't take more than a few hours. 50 games rapid might take a day or so. And a lot of tests wouldn't take 100k games to show a significant result.
Stockfish has a few hundred cores in its testing network now. And the core counts on processors just keep going up.
--Jon
It is something that I do not understand.
Why so many people choose to give computer time to stockfish when they are not being able even to choose the time control that they test and what they test.
I think that a better model should be to allow people who give computer time to choose the patch that they test if they want to do it when maybe the default option will be not to choose a specific patch.
patches that the team consider as not interesting may be in a special set and only if a person ask to test them they will get computer time.
I guess that if you did a test using their own time control multiplied by 10 and showed that it would pass they would accept it.
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