Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 07:41:05 10/01/04
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On October 01, 2004 at 10:07:34, Mike Byrne wrote: >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. It's still the same date. Tony >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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