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Subject: Re: No Position Learning in Fritz

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 00:23:32 05/13/00

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On May 12, 2000 at 23:34:23, pavel wrote:

>Hi sarah,
>         Yes and i have been saying this since i started shaving my beards ;).
>So in the SSDF tests crafty cant have positional learning, WHICH IS a
>disadvantage for the program, If not why would the author bother to use this
>option?. As far as i know there is only one program that can use positional
>learning under chessbase GUI, which is Goliath.
>thanks
>Pavel

Yes, It may indeed be a disadvantage for Crafty to be unable to benefit from
positional learning, but that would go for any other program as well. From a
testing point of view the circumstances should be the same, which appears to be
the case here. So there isn't anything intrinsically wrong with the absence of
positional learning. However, the more you strip away from the programs in
question, the more arbitrary the test becomes. This reduces its importance IMAO.

Sincerely,
Mogens



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