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Subject: Re: No Position Learning in Fritz

Author: Chessfun

Date: 06:22:51 05/13/00

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On May 13, 2000 at 03:11:28, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On May 13, 2000 at 01:14:33, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>It would seem from Mathias email that is true.
>>It is a little confusing since earlier Christophe and Dr. Hyatt were
>>writing about the issue. Christophe wrote it could be turned off
>>as position learning wouldn't help the tests and Dr. Hyatt wrote against
>>the idea of turning it off. Could be that Dr. Hyatt wasn't aware learning
>>was off in the Fritz GUI. Or was there some confusion as they may have been
>>thinking of book learning which is irrelevant with Nunn 1.
>
>Apparently neither Christophe Theron nor Dr. Hyatt (nor I and others, except
>maybe Pavel) were aware of the lack of positional learning, but they don't own a
>copy of the program AFAIK. You own a copy of Fritz, so who do you think there is
>to blame? If it been known beforehand, then a _lot_ of controversy and useless
>posts could have been avoided.


Not really true. Since the issue of positional learning was just another
issue related to testing parameters. Posts on the issue were just questions
within a myriad of other questions.

Thanks.









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