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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a Two machines Nunn 1 @ 5 mins ?

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 21:53:28 04/30/00

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On April 30, 2000 at 22:58:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 30, 2000 at 22:38:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 30, 2000 at 19:04:19, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>And now with some text in it?
>>>
>>>I restart both computers after each match?  A re-boot.  Do not ask me why?
>>>Mayhap, to clear settings??
>>>
>>>Chris Taylor
>>
>>
>>But is it enough? I have heard that Crafty learns by position. That is it is
>>able to remember the positions of a lost game and to avoid playing again the
>>moves that go into these positions.
>>
>>In this case, replaying a match with the same time controls gives an advantage
>>to Crafty.
>>
>>I don't know if Fritz has a similar system.
>>
>>In the case of learning by position, it should be necessary to erase the "learn"
>>file when one wants to reproduce a match...
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>Why is that so. When I play multiple matches against a human, no one asks to
>hypotize me to clear my memory.  Do we now suddenly declare that _all_ learning
>functions are 'NFG' and should not be allowed?

I thought purpose of Sarahs extensive testing was to find
score(time_of_game,pondering) dependency/trend/etc. Learning is cool, but skews
results and makes conclusions more vague. Other test of replaying nunn test at
same tc with learn file leftover (done several times) would be also nice...

-Andrew-



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