Thanks for the comment.

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, David Fotland wrote:

> I think you can only evaluate static evaluation in the context of a search
> and a tournament between programs.  You could start with a simple 1-ply
> search and play against gnugo.  Strength in life and death or predicting pro
> moves doesn't correlate with the ability to win games.

I know of the limited correlation, also it depends how you test the
evaluation function. Having only limited time to work on and off on Go
I do not have a game-playing program and tested the function on its own
on professional games. Anyway, my question was whether people had published
any related tests.

Thomas

> 
> David
> 
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> Subject: [computer-go] benchmark tests for static evaluation functions
> 
> Last year I was working on a static evaluation function.
> 
> Does anyone know references about published benchmark tests for static
> evaluation functions, for example, in predicting moves in professional games
> or best moves in life and death problems or predicting the status of
> semeai problems?
> 
> The published benchmarks need not be for a static evaluation function in the
> traditional sense, they could be for an opening book or a MCTS program with
> very short times available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas Wolf
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