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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