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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:11:36 06/13/00

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On June 13, 2000 at 16:03:26, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 13, 2000 at 15:51:02, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>But the learn file might as well be an opening book. What if I wrote a program
>>that spit the learn data directly into its book. All of a sudden it shouldn't be
>>allowed to use the book because books are bad? Now you're arguing for and
>>against features based on what they're called, not what they do or how they are
>>designed.
>
>If the book consisted of games played by the program itself then no problem. No
>inconsistency as far as I can tell.

Okay, then let's say I make a program named Learner. It starts out with a learn
function but no opening book. I play 8 million games against Fritz. Doesn't it
learn all the openings that Fritz played? So you might as well just put the
openings in in the first place.

-Tom



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