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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 08:51:08 06/12/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 11:48:27, aloysius wrote:

>On June 12, 2000 at 10:47:58, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On June 12, 2000 at 10:19:50, aloysius wrote:
>>
>>>Maybe instead of no books, I consider letting the engine join a tournament with
>>>an empty book. Letting the engine build a book for itself.
>>> If the program plays some sort of funny line, maybe more things should be in
>>>the evaluation function, and not by some fine tuning by the programmer, the
>>>computer plays "properly".
>>
>>You are saying "letting", but what it _really_ means is "forcing".  No
>>programmer is going to want their program to have to build it's own book during
>>a tournament.
>>
>>Pete
>
>What about using pre-built books build from its own games only; not from 'Super'
>GM games?

Then people will still complain that the computer can remember its games
perfectly.

No matter what you do, somebody in the anti-opening-book camp will find a fault
with it.

-Tom



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