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Subject: Re: Automatic Learning

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 13:28:34 09/05/00

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On September 05, 2000 at 14:37:16, Vladimir Sokolov wrote:

>It is noticed that many chess programs use automatic learning.
>If an operator lets his computer run at night, in the weekends and vacations,
>then after a few weeks, months the learn files will become stronger.
>Can a weak free program this way become stronger than a raw strong commercial
>program ?
>Can programs after a while use moves, lines and strategies that they did not
>know or were not in their memory or book in the beginning but learned from other
>programs by playing against them ?
>Are these moves automatically imported in their books or must the operator
>import them or run the analysis of the games ?
>Are there programs running on the chess servers that continuously automatically
>play against all challengers and how can players import the learning of those
>programs into their own programs ?

It my understanding,and I may be wrong, that automatic learning only applies to
the programs opening books, that is their opening books get better with
automatic learning, and not the program. Some programs can share books but not
all. Very few, if any, programs change their logical evaluations based upon a
learning module. If I misunderstood you post, I am sorry, if I did understand
then I hope that the above explains it to you.
Bill





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