Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:01:19 01/19/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 16:35:35, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 16:30:15, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On January 18, 2000 at 10:32:51, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>I noticed that sometimes Tiger keeps playing the same losing opening lines. In >>>the match Tiger-Hiarcs, games 6 and 10 are D10 openings, identical until 14... >>>e6, where Hiarcs shows an evaluation of 0.82 from its point of view. Tiger lost >>>them both. Games 17 and 19 were A45 lines that immediately out of book Hiarcs >>>evaluated as 0.57 in its favor. Again, Tiger lost both games. It seems that >>>there is a learner problem that will allow Tiger to play repeatedly the same >>>losing lines. >> >> >>You are right Enrique. This is not a bug, I would rather call it a design flaw. >> >>I have written a simple learning algorithm because I did not want to invest too >>much time in it. In fact I had almost no time to invest, so I have done my best >>in a very tight schedule. >> >>My philosophy has always been to put my efforts on the real stuff: the engine >>itself. >> >>But I'll have to work harder on the learning system, because as you have heard >>recently, Junior6 is badly taking advantage of this (I have heard it has >>repeated TWELVE TIMES the same won opening in one of the SSDF matches). :( >> >> >> Christophe > >Looks like you'll be doing some comp-comp testing in the future. Welcome to the >Core Wars saga. > >Dave Not necessarily. All I need is a learning algorithm that really knows how to avoid playing the same lost game twice, and maybe tries from time to time to replay a won game. That does not imply I'm going to buy 10 computers and let them play auto232 matches all day. Anyway I don't have enough money for that. Christophe
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