Author: Tina Long
Date: 18:24:35 10/06/01
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On October 06, 2001 at 20:53:38, stuart taylor wrote: >Having happened very clearly during the qualifiers for Kramnik, and according to >Paul himself, and now Junior is doing it again, so it's hardly likely that Fritz >desn't benefit out of all proportion by its learning function! It doesn't seem >to be coincidental anymore that Junior gets such a great start each time. > If Junior would have a complete mix up of predictability, it looks like it >would trounce Fritz any time. >S.Taylor It would be interesting to know from these three matches (Qualifier, Paul, This SSDF): How many games started with the same opening AND Fritz was the first to vary (maybe due to learning) AND this gave Fritz a better result than the previous game. I'm not disputing Stuart, but my gut feeling is there may not be a lot in it in these relatively short matches. Now, in a match of 10,000 games, the learning factor could be quite significant. Paul did you save your match games? Tina Long
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