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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:41:21 06/12/00

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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".

programmers could do things different if the target was to get good results with
no book.

You can do tournaments with no books but in this case I do not expect most
people to take your results seriously.

I think that the fair thing is to do tournaments with limitations about the
hardware and give the programmers the details and ask them if they want to play.

Uri



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