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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