Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 07:07:34 10/01/04
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On October 01, 2004 at 05:40:19, Tony Hedlund wrote: >On October 01, 2004 at 00:43:45, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On September 30, 2004 at 23:52:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On September 30, 2004 at 23:03:19, Peter Skinner wrote: >>> >>>>On September 30, 2004 at 19:59:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On September 30, 2004 at 18:30:40, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On September 30, 2004 at 18:02:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Again Crafty lost an Nimzo-Indian with white. When will it change to 1.e4? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>It won't. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>:) >>>>>> >>>>>>Do you honestly feel Crafty plays better vs computers with 1.d4? >>>>>> >>>>>>I find in online games that Crafty does very well with 1.e4 or 1.Nf3 against >>>>>>computers. >>>>>> >>>>>>Peter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>The problem is professional book lines in 1. e4 openings... >>>> >>>>I see your point. >>>> >>>>Would it not be better to supply an opening bookc.bin that would refute many of >>>>the lines, or at best come out of the opening even? >>>> >>>>Playing 1.d4 is simply going to get Crafty in trouble in quite a few of the >>>>games. You can only play it so many times before learning hurts you instead of >>>>helping you. >>>> >>>>Peter >>> >>> >>>The thing is, they play X games with one computer, so learning ought to fix this >>>up unless the Nimzo lines are so well plotted that everything it tries fails. >>> >>>Making a special SSDF opening book is not something I have time to do. Nor >>>anyone else I know of. IE Peter has some stuff from the WCCC, but we'd not want >>>to reveal that via SSDF testing as we will likely play in the next WCCC event >>>and will need a unknown book for it... >> >>The book for SSDF appears to be more or less a generic plain jane book based >>on top GM games. My own testing with new clean books like this -- it will take >>at lest about 20 -25 games to really get some "good" learning action. So it >>may take a little bit of time. > >The lrn-files is still empty. Is this ok? Will it take more games for Crafty to >start learning? Or is the learning stored somewhere else? > Learning is on by default -- it is possible, based on how Crafty came out of the opening, there was no learning. One thing you can check -- see if the the book files I sent you still have the same date/time stamp --- if they do, no learning has occurred. I would be surprised if there has been no learning after the number of games you have already played. I believed some learning should have happened by now. Mike
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