Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:09:32 08/13/99
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On August 13, 1999 at 13:09:09, Jay Scott wrote: >You're asking for a program which moves instantly if it's in a "familiar" >position that it has searched deeply enough already. > >The only program I know with this feature is Chenard, by Don Cross. > > http://www.intersrv.com/~dcross/chenard.html > >As you noticed, this feature interacts with opening book learning. Who wants >the program to instantly repeat all the moves of a game it lost--how boring! >Chenardonly stores positions up through move 15 of the opening. Your solution >is to let the program think overnight analyzing openings (or it could use >idle time between games). This is called offline book learning. > >Almost all chess programs with opening book learning use online learning, >meaning that they don't need any (appreciable) extra time outside the game >itself to do their learning. The only chess program I know with offline >learning is Hossa by Steffen Jakob: > > http://www.jakob.at/steffen/hossa.html > >Offline opening book learning is much more powerful than online learning. >I'm rooting for this feature too. We have 700K positions analyzed for the C.A.P. project. There are 4 beta testers right now working on ways to implement this data into their chess programs.
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