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Subject: Re: Automatic Learning

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 20:27:23 09/05/00

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On September 05, 2000 at 16:28:34, William H Rogers wrote:

>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

I believe some programs also have learning functions which apply to the middle
game/endgame.  Hiarcs comes to mind.  It has a file for this which grows to 64K
and then stops growing.  I assume it then ejects the oldest positions learned
for the newer ones.
Jim



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