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Subject: Re: Here we go again...

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 13:53:02 11/15/98

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On November 15, 1998 at 14:29:41, Jürgen Hartmann wrote:

>Two or three months ago I read in a usenet discussion group that an english
>programmer (Whittington) claimed that with his new version of an autoplayer
>connection he had found ways to disable the learning of all his opponents. He
>said he did it because the introduction of learning was a consequence of the
>somewhat artificial autoplayer match testing and had not much to do with real
>world chess.
>
>I thought his solution was amusing. Those new learning and anti-learning
>features of chess software remind me of a game we used to play as students on
>the Atari ST: It was called "Core Wars". You had to write an assembler program
>in a software-emulated address space and the only purpose was to overwrite
>'enemy' programs.
>
>
>Jürgen Hartmann

What was the method he suggested ?

I've also written posts here about "what to do against a learner". A wide book
and a little randomization is all you need.

Amir



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